NEDOSHIVIN V.M. 1945 – writer, literary scholar, documentary filmmaker, PhD in philosophy 1985, screenwriter of films about Davydov, Tyutchev, Kuprin, Green, Akhmatova and Tvardovsky, laureate of the «Golden Pen» award for the 60-episode television cycle «Nameless Houses. Petersburg of the Silver Age» 2003 and diploma of the Media Union of Russia for the 40-episode cycle «Nameless Houses. Moscow of the Silver Age» 2008, laureate of the Moscow Union of Writers award «Laurel Wreath» for the book about J. Orwell «Impassable Soul» 2020, as well as the author of the books «Walks through the Silver Age. Very Personal Stories from the Life of Petersburg Buildings» 2010, «Addresses of Love. Houses and Inhabitants of Russian Literature…» 2014 and «Literary Moscow. Houses and Fates, Events and Mysteries…» 2021. The new work by V.M. Nedoshivin, which you hold in your hands, – «Atlas. Literary Moscow. The House Book of Russian Literature of the 18th–21st Centuries» Vol. II – is not only a thematic continuation of the 1st volume and, without exaggeration, a unique work in the history of Russian literature. For the first time in the world, an attempt has been made to collect under one cover more than 8 thousand Moscow addresses: from proto-abbot Avvakum, Kantemir and Fonvizin to Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky. 20 addresses of Pushkin, 19 – Chekhov, 14 – Bunin, 24 – Yesenin, 26 – the «eternally homeless» Akhmatova in Moscow, and thousands and thousands of names of poets, prose writers, literary scholars, bibliophiles, and connoisseurs of the Russian word. This book is the culmination of the author's life! – it was not written by pages and not even by paragraphs – but by lines with house numbers and street names. Based on mentions in memoirs, annotations, comments on letters, lists in house books and directories, in encyclopedias and city studies literature. It not only documents the surviving or lost houses of old Moscow but also collects addresses of famous salons, literary meetings, home «Tuesdays», «Thursdays» and «Fridays», as well as the names of those who occasionally visited them. The second volume of the atlas-duology by V.M. Nedoshivin is aimed at both literature enthusiasts and specialists. It is, I believe, also a reason for discoveries in the science of literature: in its toponymy, in the emergence of directions, creative unions, in prototypes of literary heroes, finally – in studying the influence of newspapers and magazines on creativity, whose addresses are also provided. And perhaps – the main hope of the author! – this book will not only protect the «stone chronicle» of Moscow from destruction and disappearance but also help us decorate the still «nameless» houses with memorial plaques.
