About the book: 1989 / Problems of the modern Russian village: social, psychological, everyday - make up the main content of the collection. The prose of the Voronezh writer is characterized by the acuteness of the formulation of social issues and subtle insight into the psychology of the characters. There are no far-fetched plots in the stories and tales; following the flow of life, the author notices the extraordinary in the ordinary. The heroes of his works are modest workers, each with their own appearance, but they are all united by a love for the land and work, without which they cannot imagine human existence.