Writer Maria Semyonovna Koryakina (1997-2000)

Writer Maria Semyonovna Koryakina takes a walk through the forest with her writer husband, Viktor Astafyev.

Koryakina gives an interview from the backseat of a moving car (both in sync and off-camera).

A fisherman in a boat on the Yenisei, a river landscape outside the car window.

A farewell ceremony for conscripts in a village near Krasnoyarsk.

Conscripts board a bus.

Veterans wave goodbye.

Conscripts wave back through the rear window of the bus, the road and those seeing them off are visible behind the window.

Editions of Astafyev's works are on the windowsill, sheets of paper, a pen, and a box of awards are on the table.

A photograph of Koryakina during the Great Patriotic War among nurses.

Koryakina at home, the interior of her office.