Volkhonka. Znamenka. Lenivka. Walks around Chertolye

The readers of this book will make a fascinating journey through the streets of the ancient District of Moscow, whimsically called once a damn. Today it is called Moscow Museum Quarter. Three streets - Mag., Znamenka, Lodge, Four Lane - Big and Small Znamensky, Clemagon and Lebiazhiy - and one embankment - Kremlin - form an amazing historical and cultural route.
Here is a story about architectural monuments and their creators-architects: Bazhenov, tone, Vitberg, Zholtov, Iofan, and chronicle of construction and destruction of houses, as well as the history of people related to them. These are artists: Tropinin, Serov, Ostrukhov, Writers: Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Ostrovsky, Artists: Sobinov, Astangi, Lyokini, Lensky, Musicians, Scientists, Collectors: Schukins, Tsvetaev, Zilberstein. As well as memories of contemporaries about Pasternak, Eisenstein, Meyerhold, Solzhenitsyn, Mayakovsky. Answers to many interesting questions from Moscow history you will find by reading the book