About the book: 2000 / How to find the meaning of life in the daily race for your own happiness? How to break the “bad infinity” of monotonous everyday life and join in with the higher meanings of existence? It is precisely these problems that the hero of the novel “Ivanovo Hill” by Pyotr Georgievich Palamarchuk solves, the cyclist Vanya-Volodya, whose very habitat is one of the seven sacred Moscow hills, by the whimsical will of the author turned into a kind of time machine that easily pierces all eras and kingdoms. Having once entered the flow of history, the hero of the novel is forced to constantly make moral choices at its forks and twists, learning on a small - a little less than a square mile - patch of Moscow land the entire history of the Russian State in miniature. It will be especially pleasant for all true Muscovites to get acquainted with the novel by Peter Palamarchuk; after all, the depth of the Author's historical knowledge about the Golden Dome, his genuine love for the subject of study, the wonderful Russian language of the narrative make traveling along the Moscow hill with him an unforgettable and joyful adventure. So, let's hit the road...... and enjoy reading! Scanned from the publication : Pyotr Palamarchuk, “Scroll. Collection of prose", Publishing House "Palomnik", M., 2000, pp. 245–440. OCR: SweetBear, 2019.