The publication consists of three parts:I. Two sketches of the beginning of the unrealized story “The Color and the Cross”. Essays and stories, arranged in chronological order, created by Prishvin in 1917-1918. and formed the basis of the book conceived by Prishvin in 1918.P. Works of fiction from 1917-1923, directly adjacent in content to the previous part, as well as a number of novels and short stories from the 1910s that were not included in collected works of the Soviet era. III. Little-known early journalistic works, including never-reprinted newspaper publications from the period of the First World War, as well as essays from 1922-1924, when, after several years of silence, Prishvin re-entered literature