About the book: 2008 / “Cold. The grass at the deserted hippodrome turned brown. There are no doors or windows near the remains of stone buildings... Previously, a building in the courtyard where jockeys weighed in at the races was separated by a high fence from the Khodynsky field, and next to it there was a wooden house of the circle caretaker. Something remains of the garden in front of the house, the fence and fence of the garden have been destroyed, and from the windows of the house there is a view of the bare Khodynskoye field and the Vagankovskoye cemetery. A family lives in a house... They are hungry and cold…»