The stories and stories of the Moscow region writer Alexander Brezhnev are full of moral pain, worry and compassion for the fate of the Russian people. The work of the young author is characterized by a unique style and a desire to take a fresh look at established, everyday things. His prose attracts with deep humanity and love for his native land and his father’s home. In such stories and stories as “The Asylum”, “Monk Nikita”, “Vanka the Legless”, “Meadow of the Native Land”, he rebels against inertia, philistinism and the mechanical regularity of life. The author is a doctor by profession, therefore he thoroughly knows the problems of medicine and in his action-packed story “Heart Failure”, he condemns the rudeness and cruelty of some doctors - contrasting them with sensitivity, mercy and empathy for the suffering patient.