This book — a unique guide to the forgotten literary addresses of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a guide with "essays in hand" about the unusual, happy, and tragic fates of Russian writers in Russia.
From street to street, from house to house, from entrance — and even to the very roof, you will follow the author through dozens, hundreds of suddenly revived buildings where outstanding poets and prose writers lived and created, fell in love and parted, quarreled and made up, feasted and suffered. And then, like out of a fog, like in the illustrated cards of childhood, the familiar quarters, alleys, houses, and even yards will suddenly emerge in a new fantastic, previously unseen guise—personally and only for you! There is, believe me, such a mysterious effect of the "history of stories" in our literature.
The volume you hold in your hands is the first of three that will tell about the great epochs of our literature — about the writers of the Golden Age, the Silver Age, and the current age, which can also quite conditionally be called the Bronze Age today. And as a bonus — wonderful walks to you, dear readers!