The exhibition features a black stone stand decorated with a figurine of a deer’s head, with recesses for inkwells and pens. On the stand, there are two rotating bronze candlesticks on openwork railings, and two figured glass inkwells with bronze cone-shaped lids. Vitaly Aleksandrovich Zakrutkin bought the inkwell with candles and a deer’s head in Leningrad in the 1950s.

Vitaly Zakrutkin used these inkwells while working on the novel “Floating Stanitsa” which he wrote during his third year in Kochetovskaya. In this book, the writer addressed issues of environmental protection, morality, and humanism. He wrote about the impact of natural beauty on one’s aesthetic development. He also explored the post-war period and wrote about the people who took on the restoration of what had been lost and destroyed with incredible zeal and enthusiasm. They were building something new and hoped that future generations would never face the horrors of war again. The characters of the novel confessed their love for the place where they were born and raised,