Layouts

Thirteen modern writers who write in Russian created thirteen stories about layouts in their cultures: different, yet they are based on the same phenomena and processes. Growing up (for example, through a computer game, as in Dasha Blagova's story), choosing a profession (to become a shepherd or a vlogger, as in Islam Khanipaev's text), marriage (between people of different traditions, as in Ekaterina Manoilo's story), as well as confronting death, going through dreams, reality, winter, and summer – overcoming these and other complex, sometimes pivotal, but ordinary events and phenomena becomes our grounding, a point of support, and a source of strength for experiencing times of catastrophe.