Kitay-Gorod: Roman. Boborykin P.D.

“China - City” is one of the main works of an unfairly forgotten talented writer Peter Dmitrievich Boborykin (1836-1921), whose peak of popularity came at the end of the 19th - beginning of the XX century. The central place of action of the novel is the merchant Moscow of the 1880s, and important topics are the decline of the nobility and the birth of the Russian cultural bourgeoisie. Boborykin reliably describes the details of merchant life, culinary preferences, the interior and habits of merchants and nobles against the backdrop of the upcoming forebodings of socio -political changes.