The New Russian Classics series publishes books by authors who have become iconic in modern Russian prose and have been awarded authoritative literary awards in recent years. Thus, the winners of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize were Yevgeny Vodolazkin, Patriot by Andrei Rubanov, and Long Jump by Olga Slavnikova, released in the Laurel collection. And the Big Book award was received by Vladimir Sharov's Return to Egypt and Leonid Yuzefovich's Cranes and Dwarfs.