Moscow and Muscovites

A wonderful collection of essays that critics are calling "an encyclopedia of Russian life at the turn of the century". Before readers literally comes to life variegated, many-sided Moscow of late XIX – early XX century Like in reality, we see lush merchant sprees and go to the mysterious shop known antique dealers, along with dissolute, daring the bandits studied the dangerous back streets of the infamous Khitrovka – and pursue them with the famous Moscow police, get acquainted with the ancient catacombs of the Neglinka and observed the hustle and bustle of colorful Okhotny.