The story “Bedtime” was published in the collection “Far and Near Fairy Tale.” The book is a classic of Russian literature addressed to the younger generation. The collection includes stories for children and youth, written by the author in different years and mainly included in the main book of his work, “The Last Bow.” As Valentin Kurbatov, a friend and researcher of the work of Viktor Astafiev, writes in the preface, “... he always wrote one “Last Bow”, gathered in it the family that he was left out of as an orphan, called not only his grandparents, but also all those close and distant , relatives and neighbors, all the girls and boys, all the games, all the small joys and considerable sorrows and, it seems, all the flowers and herbs, trees and rivers, all the swallows and dawns, and with them the whole Motherland, which is the main family of a person, his light and salvation. He called for himself and for us.”