The collection of short prose by Anton Utkin includes the folklore story “Wedding beyond the Bug” and stories from different years. In the summer of 2009, three of them were used as the basis for a feature film created by the Mosfilm film studio and called “Southern Calendar”. Most of the stories included in the collection have a southern theme and are written in the best traditions of Russian classical literature. Subtle psychologism is combined here with a three-dimensional vision of the surrounding world, which is very rare in modern literature.