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The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
Benjamin: the parishioners in charge of flower arrangements on the altars are gossiping and arguing with each other, someone has messed up the confessional, and a few believers have started a petition against him.
The novel is set in a Cossack community on the Don River during collectivization in the Soviet Union. The work, divided into two parts, follows the dramatic changes in the village of Gremyachi Log as the Bolsheviks introduce collective farms, which provok