Old Moscow. Pylyaev M.

The little things of Moscow life and trifling jokes collected and extracted from oblivion by the writer and journalist Mikhail Pilyaev (1842-1899) at the end of the 19th century, today sparkle, attracting the attention of antiquity, like precious stones. That is what was called one of the many books of Pilyaev-without exaggeration, the real encyclopedist of old Moscow, old St. Petersburg. Finally, speaking with his own words, the old life of wonderful eccentrics and the originals of the pioneers. A sample of the genre, brought to style perfection by Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), “the most Russian of Russian writers.”