The story "Starfall" is intended for the Russian writer, as if by fate itself, to write about his childhood … and, of course, about his first love», – Astafyev wrote in the afterword to his story "Starfall". According to Astafyev, first love is a gift from above, happiness that visits a person, it is a great and radiant feeling that adorns life in youth and "does not fade away, warming until death". And the memory of her is "more precious than all the jewels in the world." With the advent of the precious Astafiev story in the early 60s, the word "starfall" entered the dictionary of many Soviet writers and poets. A film of the same name by the famous film director Igor Talankin, based on her motives, appeared. Astafiev's play "Forgive Me" was born from it, which is still successfully playing on the theatrical stages of Russia. It seems like a simple plot! The hospital. The love of a wounded soldier and a nurse. Separation... But the story "Starfall" shines like a bright star; in the firmament of Russian literature, because it is prose of brilliant purity and heavenly height. And it is not by chance that it begins with the words of the poet: "Love is an old thing, but every heart renews it in its own way."