About the book: year / "The train stopped for five minutes. Station – Bliskavki. There are few passengers, no one travels from afar. This branch of the railway was brought here to export grain, and even then in winter, not in summer. In the summer, conductors run through empty cars, and it’s good if there are two or three people in the car. These are familiar faces, familiar to conductors a long time ago: a Jew, a landowner, a priest, a rich Cossack, a high school student, a high school student…»