Apartment number 2 and its surroundings. Velchinskaya O.A.

The book of the Moscow artist Olga Velchinskaya “Apartment No. 2 and its surroundings” is a collection of living things painted with warm humor about Moscow and its inhabitants who inhabited the city in different years of the 20th century, mostly the surroundings of Prechistenka, Ostozhenka, Arbat, pure ponds. These are stories about family and friends, about urban traditions and about Moscow realities, commemorative old Muscovites, about the way of communal life, about the neighbors of different calls and the ridiculous and sad stories that happened to them. Otherwise, it is connected with the names of the writer Sergei Zakayitsky, the poets of Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, the artists of Leonid Pasternak and Nikolai Krymov, as well as the author of the author, the artist Alexei Aizenman.

, historical documents were organically woven into memoir essays - evidence of the era discovered author in the family archive. The book may be interesting to a wide circle of readers of different generations.