“In every small or large village there is a certain “set” of people, without whom it is difficult, and perhaps even completely impossible, to imagine the very existence of the village. Without them, it would have lost its physiognomy, its character, and most of all, its soul. I wanted to tell about such people of one village and at the very beginning warn the reader that I will not have any story in the usual sense, because a real story presupposes an indispensable plot and the end-to-end action of at least its main characters. There will be neither one nor the other in this book. There will be no main character, as there would be in a traditional story. All my heroes are in order alive, or what, they will have their turns in the roles of the main and secondary.” Based on one of the short stories of M. Alekseev’s story “Bread is a Noun,” director Nikolai Moskalenko in 1968 made the film “Crane” with Lyudmila Chursina in the main role roles.