Compositionally, the book is clearly divided into two parts. The first part is a cycle of stories united by a common ideological and moral pathos and a special narrative manner. This is a tale that preserves the lively intonations of figurative folk speech in all the richness of their manifestations. The storytelling style is one of the most difficult in literature. The second part, which includes the story "Anna Stepanovna," and the scripts "Beetroot" and "Fulfillment of Desires" were written in a different manner. There is no fairy-tale folklore poetry, the narrative is more objectified, the distance "author - hero" increases, but the spiritual situation remains the same. This is a situation of moral choice, spiritual self-determination of heroes, in which simplicity, goodness and truth win.