Fyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov is a Russian Soviet writer, one of the most famous representatives of “village prose”, recognized during his lifetime as a classic of Russian literature. His works served as “spiritual beacons” for several generations of Russians for many years. The stories presented in this publication tell about the destinies of Russian people, about the life of a Russian village, but these are not just life stories, they are more than anything stories of characters, stories about how life and moral values change in a person over several decades.