About the book: 1986 / The heroes of this book often leave home; some are not far away, as in the story “Boys from Maysk”, others are far away (the story “Wanderers by the Fire”) to look back on their days - is this how they live? - to make sure that in distant lands Russian people are active, work passionately, live with faith in the future. And Ivan Mityushkin from the film story “Dmitrovskaya Saturday” generally traveled all over the country before he found his destiny, his bitter and beautiful love. And the author himself goes to the fields of his childhood and adolescence (the story “Outlines of the Native Hills”), trying to understand the nostalgic bitterness and the inevitability of changes in his homeland, to feel the connection of times, the connection of hearts in his native land and the ardent hope that our children will also grow up to be workers and patriots.