Moscow and Muscovites

A wonderful collection of essays, called critics "Encyclopedia of Russian life at the turn of the century." The readers literally come to life, many -faced Moscow at the end of the XIX - early twentieth century. Like in reality, we see violent merchants - and go into the mysterious shops of famous antiquaries, along with rampant, hungry bandits we study dangerous nooks of the notorious trick - and pursue them with the famous Moscow police, get acquainted with the ancient catacon of Neglinka - and we observe the noise and the vanity of the colorful Okhotnoye Row.