About the book: 2022 / Before you have twelve stories about the legendary Secret City, in which ancient Great Houses have been fighting, negotiating and betraying each other for thousands of years. Hidden from ordinary people in the dark, the City lives its own life and only occasionally distorted facts flash in the news, from which it is impossible to understand what is really going on on old Moscow streets. It is impossible to guess that many of us meet real wizards every day... Vadim Panov’s new short story “Rapid Changes” and a revised excerpt from the novel “Pulpit of Wanderers” “Send your voice!” open the collection of winners of the competition “Secret City - Your City 2021” - a book of twelve stories about Moscow secrets.