Moscow and Muscovites

"Moscow and Muscovites" - a collection of stories and essays, which fascinatingly tells about the life of Muscovites in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As critics aptly said, this is the "History of everyday life" of Moscow, where the past appears before readers in all its diversity: in brilliance and poverty, in fun and sorrow.
The book of a talented journalist and reporter is among the 100 most popular books of Russia. In the new edition, the texts of Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky were first accompanied by detailed follow -up comments with photographs of old Moscow.
Additional materials were prepared by the famous Muscovite historian Mikhail Ivanovich Vostryshev. These comments connect Gilyarovsky pre -revolutionary Moscow with modern Moscow, are a kind of guide to Moscow of the late XIX - early XX centuries