Ghosts of the House on Gorky

The apartment on the fourth floor at Gorky Street, No. 9 kept its secrets even before the Kreshchensky family moved in: a mysterious and never-solved murder once strangely influenced the lives of the new inhabitants. Grandma Lida was convinced that a ghost had taken up residence in the closet, while tenth-grader Katya and her school friend Irka seized every opportunity to hunt for this apartment's spirit at night together.
But those were just details, as in the seventies here, in the house on Gorky, there was not only a ghost but also a "pleasant human filling": famous neighbors – Bondarchuk, Efremov, Basov, many other actors, directors, physicists, and other talents; nearby were central Moscow shops, and from the farthest window of the apartment, one could see the edge of the Historical Museum and a glimpse of Red Square. In Katya's room, the cunningly squinting Lenin peered in from a huge street poster of the Central Telegraph across from her window.
An autobiographical novel by Robert Rozhdestvensky's daughter, revealing to the reader a vivid and eventful family life, where there was room for adventures, books, love, education, marriage, and great tragedy.