Tryokhprudny Lane in the center of Moscow, house No. 22 — this is where an astonishing spectacle unfolds, vast in scope and depth, entitled "A House in Exemplary Order".
An academic convict and a sculptor who has drunk himself to ruin, a crime boss and a film operator, an architect and a gangster — complex residents inhabit this old-Moscow building. Complex fates are in store for them, crafted by the author and by time. Eras change, heroes change, and everything happening around them changes too. Some are destined for a tragic end; others, through suffering and deprivation, will come to God…
A family saga, an ancient Greek tragedy, a contemporary thriller — combining the incompatible, Grigory Ryazhsky has written a grand picture of the evolution of the world, the evolution of society, the evolution of the individual…