Moscow at the Crossroads of Fate. A Guide from Celebrities Who Were Provincials

8 hrs. 5 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Andrey Shlyakhov

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Want to know how the first meeting with Moscow turned out for Vladimir Gilyarovsky? Why did the son of a tobacco factory owner, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, become an actor—trading the Vladikavkaz factory for the Moscow Art Theatre? Where did Faina Ranevskaya’s biggest fiasco happen? How did Vladimir Bryntsalov, Moscow’s second beekeeper after Yury Luzhkov, trick the whole country? Why did Anastasia Zavorotnyuk—after traveling around countries and continents with yet another husband—keep coming back to Moscow again and again? What did Dima Bilan, the “mountain man,” get from Iosif Kobzon during his first visit to the capital? Then listen to this book. You’ll learn a lot of interesting things and have a great time traveling through Moscow with the most famous provincial newcomers.

Contents

Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Mikhail Nesterov
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yury Olesha
Semyon Lavochkin
Grigory Aleksandrov
David Oistrakh
Faina Ranevskaya
Sergey Korolev
Vladimir Voinovich
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Leonid Filatov
Alena Apina
Vladimir Bryntsalov
Vladimir Mashkov
Yevgeny Mashkov
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk
Dima Bilan