There was Rome here. Sonkin V.V.

Modern walks in the ancient city.

Viktor Sonkin-philologist, specialist in Western European and Slavic literature, journalist, translator-synchronist and teacher, one of the leaders of the seminar Borisenko-Sonkina (Moscow State University), whose participants prepared The anthology of the detective novel “Not only Holmes” and “Not the butler”. This book arose at the junction of the two main hobbies of the author - antiquity and travel. It can be read as a guide, or you can - as a story about one of the main places on Earth. The author sought to follow in the footsteps of enlightened amateurs, in love with the eternal city - Goethe, Byron, Gogol, Dickens, Mark Twain, Pavel Muratov, Peter Vail. The capital of the omnipotence of the dads, the pearl of the Renaissance and Baroque, the city of Michelangelo and Bernini will shine through almost through each page, but the main content of the book “Rome was here” is a story about ancient times, about the city of Romulus, Caesar and Nero.