About the book: 2020 / Collection of stories and short stories by Leonid Ivanov continues the best traditions of village prose. “Leshy” (village sketches) is a tribute to simple villagers who, in the Kyanda forest tract, separated from civilization by swamps and taiga, where there is neither electricity nor radio, live by their labor and forest gifts, believe in folk superstitions and the owner of the forest, love, they get married, have children, do good things and play good-natured pranks on their neighbors. “Reservation” is a story about old people abandoned in dying villages, who often turn out to be of no use to anyone. They are remembered only on the eve of the upcoming elections, for the sake of another PR stunt. The stories included in the book are dedicated to a modern village abandoned to the mercy of fate and its last inhabitants..