Dmitri personally studied a case about a Russian Almasty, or Russian Snowman that occurred in the late 1800s. The female creatures name was Zana and she had been caught and tamed and lived and died within the memory of a number of people still alive at the time of the research. She was buried near the village of Tkhina in the Ochamchiri District of Abkhazaia in the 1880's or 1890's. She had been successful in bearing some children with matings from the men in the village. This story of the investigation on Zana, plus many sighting reports from Russia are what this delightful book is made of.