Real life participates in the books of F. Abramov as an inextricable, unyielding force. But F. Abramov is a restrained artist; maybe the most restrained in all "rustic prose." The first volume of the Collected Works included the novels "Brothers and Sisters" and "Two Winters and Three Summers." The second volume includes the third and fourth novels of the tetralogy "Brothers and Sisters" and the story "Around and Around." The third volume includes both widely known stories and short stories of the writer, as well as less familiar works ("Mamonikha," "Babilei," "Log Mausoleums," etc.) for the first time collected in the volume of articles, interviews, literary portraits created by F. Abramov in different years.