yegor prokudin’s repentance before his mom, this is actually repentance itself shukshina.t don't react to this. what happened to him? he was going to conquer moscow, he wanted to become a writer, he... wanted to study at a literary institute, but this was impossible for two reasons: firstly, he did not finish school, he dropped out of school as an adult, he was a poor student in general, dropped out of the automotive technical school where he studied in barnaul, but he was still bored by it, he dreamed of a different life, a different destiny, and felt his calling, so he comes to moscow, but moscow does not accept him, he does not belong to moscow needed, he doesn’t have a certificate to enter the institute, besides, to enter the literary institute, he must pass a creative competition, send some of his own... and essay stories, shukshin didn’t have anything like that, then he just starts look for work, come home back to nothing he doesn’t want to, he comes to kaluga and goes to work at the plant, this is the most difficult period of his life, this is post-war russia, this