The events described in the stories “Novomir” and “My Star, Evening Lady” take place in the villages of the Southern Urals (Orenburg region) at the end of perestroika and the beginning of the notorious “reforms”. The main character of the story “Novomir” is a pensioner who has worked all his life as a machine operator, living out his days in a semi-abandoned village, but who, in spite of everything, managed to preserve in himself that human element that was completely lost by the so-called new Russians. The heroine of the story “My Star, Evening Lady” finally meets the only one whom she never lost hope of finding—her love, support, companion in life, and this is during the time of yet another Russian Troubles, the collapse of everything they lived and hoped for...New book famous Russian prose writer, winner of the I.A. Bunin, Alexander Nevsky, D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak and many others.