Mir-Helo and its inhabitants

In the evenings, a man wanders around the dark outskirts and sings loudly: “A bird of happiness tomorrow, choose me, you bast me! ..” This is a deaf, local drunkard, the perfect model of the writer: walks through the village, knocks on the windows, requires moonshine ... Get to know him and other residents of Sosnovka - the usual village in the Tambov region, the birthplace of writer Alexei Shepelev. Not folklore, but real modern Russian peasants work, rest, have fun and sad, sing and dream - in a word, live, despite all the difficulties, preserving the traditional way. The author of the book “Mir-Helo and its inhabitants” tells about them with sincere respect and warm humor. “While they sing about space while flying - there is a village,” he said