Rome was here. Modern walks around the ancient city

Viktor Sonkin is a philologist, a specialist in Western European and Slavic literature, a journalist, a synchronist translator and a teacher, one of the leaders of the Seminar Borisenko-Sonykina (Moscow State University), whose participants prepared the anthology of detective novels "not only Holmes" and "not but butler". This book arose at the junction of two main hobbies of the author - antiquity and travel. It can be read as a guide, and you can - as a story about one of the main places on Earth. The author sought to follow in the footsteps of enlightened amateurs, lovers in the eternal city, - Goethe, Bairon, Gogol, Dickens, Mark Twain, Pavel Muratova, Peter Waily. The capital of the All-Russia Dad, Pearl Renaissance and Baroque, the city of Michelangelo and Bernini will shine almost through each page, but the main content of the book "here was Rome" - this is a story about ancient times, about the city of Romula, Caesar and Nero