The famous representative of “village” prose, Vladimir Krupin was one of the first to create the genre in which Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov (author of the bestseller “Unholy Saints”) successfully works. And it is no coincidence that Krupin became the first laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize - a high spiritual award. For a quarter of a century, Krupin’s talent has served to save people from the dominance of mass culture, and the main thing in this is the understanding of the brevity of earthly life and the eternal life of the soul. The book contains the best stories and novels “Pass it along the chain,” the main idea of which is this: Russia is now the center of the Christian world, Russia will be saved by faith, Russia has a high destiny: to be the spiritual center of modern humanity.