The collection “Moscow: A Place of Meeting” brought together 32 works by masters of contemporary prose created specifically for this book. Each author has their own Moscow and their own stories connected with it. And although sometimes authors walk along the same streets, enter the same houses, each sees the city differently.
Miussy by Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Olga Tрифонова, Lengory by Dmitry Bykov, VDNH by Dmitry Glukhovsky and Yuri Arabov, Taganka by Alexander MinkIn, Neglinnaya by Yevgeny Bunimovich, Prechistenka by Olga Vylchinskaya, Sretenka by Veronika Dolina and Tатьяна Щербина, “Cloud Chernin” in Gnezdnikovsky Lane by Marina Moskvinа, Rozhdestvenka by Andrey Makarevich, Pushkinskaya by Marina Boroditskaya, Matveyevskoye (aka Blizhnyaya Dacha) by Alexander Arkhangelsky, Tushino by Dmitry Danilov, Khodynka by Vladimir Sharov, Tverskye-Yamskiye by Vladimir Berezin, Avtozavodskaya by Alexey Varlamov, Novy Arbat by Gleb Shulpyakov, Airport by Oleg Fochkin, Frunze by Maria Golovanivskaya, Ordynka by Sergey Shargunov…
Thanks to the collection, readers now have a happy opportunity to stroll through the capital in the company of a favorite author. Each writer describes their own Moscow; together, these stories and essays weave a curious mosaic of tales, memories, regrets, joyful encounters, and happy events. The book is illustrated with watercolors by the Moscow artist Alena Dergileva.