Documentary essay about the situation in a southern Russian village in the mid-1990s.

There is discord in old Martinovna’s family: her son-in-law has grown an unprecedented harvest of elite wheat on her land, the profit from the sale will also...

Grandfather Fyodor has been intending to tell the author episodes from his long life for several years now. But beyond “we should…” things move slowly. He is...

In ancient years, Ivan Varenikov planted a mulberry tree in his yard so that his daughters could feast on it. Ivan grew old, his daughters grew up, the mulbe...

“Three meetings in one day. Three short conversations in my summer, village life.”

A few words about human memory and attention to people.

After a working day, farm tractor driver Tyurin came to his neighbors with a bottle of moonshine to “drink a little.” We sat, chatted, had dinner - everythin...

Do you know what kaymak is? Hardly. To truly know it, you need to taste it... not in the city, but in a Cossack village.

Student Ilya Khabarov, the son of a local millionaire and the brother of the future mayor of the regional capital, experienced a terrible shock: he was kidna...

Documentary essay on the ethno-demographic situation in the rural outback of the Volgograd region as of 2003: peasants leave for the city, old people live on...

The author recalls examples of the implementation and violation of this eternal law of the human community.

One of the villagers, having read the story about the war, decided to share with the author her memories of war and post-war life on the Don farm.