About the book: 2009 / All kinds of provincial audiences poured into the bourgeois houses and barns of Ostankino in the twenties. There were Jews among the newcomers too. Having left the backwaters of their birthplace, breaking with their roots and way of life, many of those who hoped for Moscow success did not calculate their strength and were left with nothing, finding new restlessness in their backyard dwellings. The fabulous and absurd life there is saved from oblivion by the stories of Asar Eppel collected in this book.