About the book: year / "...This book is not intended for (God forgive me!) the general reader. Because few people are interested in journalistic texts after they have been published (here, as with the loss of a girl’s innocence in the 19th century). And this book brings together precisely such texts that have lost their innocence, moreover, selected on a formal basis: the action in them - with the exception of “Moscow - Chicken Leg” - takes place outside Moscow. However, such texts may be of interest to readers of several categories. Firstly, for non-Muscovites who are interested in what this Gubin told about their Ivanovo (St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Krasnodar). Secondly, to aspiring journalists, for whom the profession starts with imitation (I myself was once a fan of Valery Agranovsky, his brother Anatoly, Yuri Chernichenko and Anatoly Strelyan). Then - to my staunch fans (who often buy Ogonyok or visit the site for my texts). And, finally, to researchers of Russia after 1991, as well as Russian journalism of this period…»