About the book: 1988 / Mikhail Vostryshev's first book consisted of a story and stories about Moscow at the end of the 18th - first half of the 19th century. The author tried to show some features of the life of different strata of the urban population, talk about old Moscow streets, folk festivals, and customs. The characters in the collection are Old Moscow residents. All of them are real people, Muscovites, whose lives and deeds gave the ancient white-stone city a unique face..