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...

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.

Neighbors come to visit the author for brunch, tell him farm news, judge and dress him up.

Which day Valya Dadekina slowly says goodbye to the farm, moving to live in the regional center: drinks with her friends, sings her favorite songs, expects t...

On a sultry afternoon, a peddler suddenly appeared on a heat-ravaged farmstead - an energetic young man in a tie, with a full bag of “branded” household smal...

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

“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...