About the book: 2012 / “Moscow is a woman, she is a mother, she is a sufferer and a martyr,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in a draft version of the novel “War and Peace,” thereby emphasizing the enduring importance of Moscow both for Russian history and for Russian literature. Tolstoy came to Moscow more than one hundred and fifty times and stayed here for a long time. Together with the famous Moscow scholar Alexander Vaskin, readers will visit Tolstoy's Moscow, to the addresses where the writer lived or visited - on Plyushchikha and Sivtsev Vrazhek, on Pyatnitskaya and Vozdvizhenka, on Kamergersky Lane and on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, on Tverskaya Street, on Voznesensky Lane and , of course, in Khamovniki. This book is not only a kind of biography of Leo Tolstoy, relating to the Moscow period of his life, but also an interesting story about the writer’s “novels” with one or another Moscow building or street.