Article is devoted ideological artly to the analysis of the story of Andrey Antipin Uncle . Work of the young Siberian writer is considered as the modern phenomenon of rural prose , classical for the Russian tradition. The main attention is paid to processes of her modernization: to crisis of a classical dialogism and conciliarity, strengthening of centralization of the main character and growth of existential tendencies in a reconstruction of his way, formation of an image of the generation which has endured tragic changes in national life. The key idea of the story is defined as symbolical complication of separate unfortunate destiny in borders of historical time and in the context of the Russian character.