Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230).
Vasily and Vasilisa -- French lessons -- Live and love -- What should I tell the crow? -- The fire -- Auntie Ulita -- Your Siberia and mine -- How did they end up in Irkutsk? -- Baikal -- What we have : a Baikal prologue without an epilogue -- Your son, Russia, and our passionate brother : on Vasily Shukshin -- The truths of Aleksandr Vampilov