Seryozha

In the story "Seryozha," we see life through the eyes of a child, who understands everything happening in his own way, including family problems. In his world – with games, ordinary joys and sorrows, sore throats, and the love of close ones – a new adult appears, a stepfather, whom Seryozha calls by his last name: Korostelyov. Fair and courageous, Korostelyov, unlike many adults, knows how to speak to the boy respectfully, as equals, helping him solve small but very important problems. It is he who insists that Seryozha be taken to Kholmogory – a distant northern city, where the family is moving and which seems to the boy to be a magical place.