Alyosha Batakov, who returned from the regional center, settled on the farm - homely, thrifty, with every task in his hands. And these things in the village ...

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...

Much has been written about the work of the remarkable Russian prose writer Boris Ekimov, but perhaps the most capacious statement was the formulation of the...

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...

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

Documentary essay on the situation in agriculture caused by economic reforms in the early 2000s.

Having returned to the farm, on the third day the author went to visit his neighbor, Baba Katya, and at the same time get some farm news.

A few words about the old Cossack recipe for Don fish steamed in the oven.

Much has been written about the work of the remarkable Russian prose writer Boris Ekimov, but perhaps the most capacious statement was the formulation of the...

“Of course, this is a miracle: bare trees, gray spring earth, still untidy, with all sorts of rubbish and rubbish; and this scarlet living light is like a si...

A small case by today's standards, but one that surprised the author, was a case involving a district investigator for particularly important cases.