In his stories, the author tries to understand the soul of a Russian man who finds himself at a turning point in history. The stories are written in the genre of psychological stories and are united by one theme: the confrontation between a person and life circumstances. The heroes of these works are ordinary people living among us: an old man, a priest, a housewife, a monk, a homeless person, a military man, a businessman, an icon painter, a workshop manager, a taiga resident and many others. Each of them has to make one or another choice in difficult situations and make decisions that determine their fate.