City People. Amazing Stories from the Life of the People of City E

The book “CITY DWELLERS” consists of nine novellas and eighteen heroes. One unusual city through the eyes of Anna Matveeva: face to face.

Here lives a playwright of world renown Nikolai Kolyada, the great sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was born here, and once upon a time the disgraced Marshal Zhukov and the famous Ural storyteller Bazhov met and became friends. Vladimir Shakhrin—before he became the leader of the legendary group “Chaif”—trades records at flea markets; Evgeny Roizman—the future mayor—reads classics in a prison cell; on the streets an eccentric old man Bukashkin entertains the public—an unforgettable face of the city. And there is still the unshakable Ipatiev House—the place of execution of the imperial family—and the future master of the city, Boris Yeltsin, is at the moment only a student.

Anna Matveeva’s new book about all of them—these people, these houses, these stories of City E. Paired portraits of vivid personalities connect distant centuries and rhyme with destinies.