The tablecloth of the English queen

How was the tablecloth embroidered in the village of Kadom, ended up on the table of the English queen? Why was Michurin excluded from the Pron gymnasium? Why did the landowner from Ethema decide to fly to the moon and how did it end?
Continuing an artistic study of the Russian hinterland, begun in the book Unprintable Gingerbread, Mikhail Baru writes new witty essays about not the most famous cities and towns - Sergache, Skopin, Mikhailov, Zavolzhsk, Shatsk and others, creating his own personal annalistic vault , his king-book about the Russian province. Behind the modest county facade of these towns, not only the charm of the local flavor, but also traces of the great history are often hidden: the fate of these settlements, like their inhabitants, find themselves rich in dramatic events, and shifts of eras, war and other national tragedies were lived here no less intensively than in the capitals. Through these stories about small and very small cities, like through glasses in a kaleidoscope, a pattern of our common historical fate opens.
Mikhail Baru - a poet, prose writer, translator, chemical engineer, author of the book Unprintable Gingerbread, published in the publishing house "UFO"