The autobiographical book of the outstanding Russian writer Vladimir Krupin includes stories and essays about life from childhood to the present day. With wisdom and simplicity, the writer reveals his life to its most hidden depths. In Krupin’s “memorable” works you feel the feeling of a great national misfortune that befell the country of a historical catastrophe. The writer sees the abyss on the edge of which the state finds itself, and shudders at the elements of unpunished evil. Before us appears a panorama of Rus' tormented, deceived, suffering; pictures of general impoverishment, embitterment and moral fatigue unfold. Krupin sees his mission as a modern Russian writer in fighting “for the resurrection of Russia, for its place in the world, for the purity and holiness of Orthodoxy...” The design uses a portrait of V. Krupin by A. Almazov