Description:When Karl XII decided to invade Russia he had no idea how much sorrow and despair his decision would cause. Vendel Grip was one of many miserable souls who landed in a prison camp deep in Siberia.Vendel finally managed to escape in an old boat. Mighty rivers carried him northward to the tundra by the coast of the Kara Sea and, amazingly, to a distant branch of the descendants of the Ice People.