“A very life-like and sad story”; “The story is terrible, told in such a way that reading it makes your heart ache”; "It's a difficult story. And the end even more so. And it’s a shame that this is the other side of our reality”; “You wrote wonderfully! I read it, but my soul shrank from pain and melancholy, and somewhere at the very bottom tears came to my eyes...”; “How well written! True! Easy to read and with great interest!”; “A good and interesting story, a cross-section of the life of the country is described wonderfully in the story”; “Your stories are good. Kind ones. Not random - that’s why the words are precise, the style is simple, clear, not hiding the depth” - such reviews are left by readers about the works of the author, a former forensic expert, in which there are no dismembered corpses, pools of blood, raped women and suitcases with jewelry. But everything he writes about is based on real events of which he happened to be an eyewitness. The stories he tells (sometimes tragic) from the destinies of ordinary people add up to a narrative about the life of Russians in Soviet times and at the breaking point of the political system.