About the book: year / The life of Moscow at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries is diverse and contradictory. The cozy patriarchy of Moscow life explodes here with the boots of the new time, the inevitable heavy tread of the age of electricity and metal, world wars and revolutionary upheavals. The author of the book, using extensive documentary material, immerses the reader both in the peaceful, unhurried rhythm of merchant and middle-class Moscow of the late 19th century, and in the pre-storm atmosphere that was felt in the Mother See at the beginning of the twentieth century. With his characteristic love for details, which form the essence of everyday life, G. V. Andreevsky, like an experienced guide, travels through the labyrinth of Moscow streets, meeting on his way different “types and types” - from the inhabitants of the Moscow bottom to the powers that be, - from time to time referring to earlier events or to the years of one’s youth.