The music plays on the Moldavanka. Sidorov A.

In the book of the writer, journalist and researcher of the criminal subculture and lower folklore of Alexander Sidorov, essays are collected about the famous thieves and street songs - “The music plays on the Moldavian”, “Swim, our boat,“ when I was a boy ”,“ “when I was a boy”, “ The Mitrofanovskoye Cemetery ”and others. As in his famous book“ Song of my Murka ”, the author talks not only about the history of the creation of pearls“ thieves classics ”, but also about many related little -known historical and everyday facts. The reader will be able to learn a lot of interesting information about the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, about the development of legal proceedings at the dawn of Soviet power, about the take-off and fall of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, as well as, if desired, to understand specific topics as the foundations of hand-to-hand “hooligan battle”, classification of knives and Kinzhalov and “Cocainization” of Russia in the first decades of the last century.