Parisian boys in Stalin Moscow

Sergey Belyakov is a historian and writer, author of the books" Gumilev son of Gumilyov "," Shadow of Mazepa. Ukrainian nation in the Gogol era, "Spring of peoples. Russians and Ukrainians between Bulgakov and Petliura ", laureate of the Prize" Big Book ", finalist of the Awards" National Bestseller" and "Yasnaya Polyana".
The son of Marina Tsvetaeva George Efron, better known under the home name "Moore, was born in the Czech Republic, grew up in France, but considered himself Russian. However, in pre -war Moscow classmates, friends, girls saw in him - a foreigner, a Parisian boy. The “Parisian boy” was also a friend of Moore, Dmitry Szeman, who at the same time came with his parents to Moscow. The life of friends in the USSR seems to be a series of misfortunes: the arrests and death of loved ones, homelessness, evacuation, hunger, front, where one of them will be wounded and the other will die ... But in their Moscow life there were also happy days.
Stalin Moscow - the radiant showcase of the Soviet Union. The "Lincolnes", "Packcards" and Zisa raced along the new wide streets, delicacies were sold in Eliseevsky: