“The Yeltyshevs” is a family epic by Roman Senchin. The scary and absolutely real world into which the Yeltyshev family finds itself is the world of the modern Russian village. No, not the village where people usually go on weekends from big cities to grill kebabs and sing karaoke. And a real village, ancient as Russia itself: without roads, without medicine, without amenities and means of subsistence. Villages where an extra mouth is worse than disease and you can pay with your life for a bundle of firewood in winter. People very quickly lose their human appearance when faced with the need to survive. And only those who themselves have walked the path of return can condemn them for this: from success and money to poverty and fear, from satiety to hunger and cold... Senchin is cruel and does not spare anyone - but in this cruelty lies purification. After “The Eltyshevs,” it won’t be so easy to say the usual “I love you.” This word will change your taste...