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Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will take them to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to find themselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal... the secret history of Moscow.

The book Moscow and Muscovites, written by Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin, author of the famous historical novel Yuri Miloslavskii or Russian in 1612, Roslavlev or Russian in 1812," and many other works. Moscow and Muscovites - vivid and fascinating essays, short stories, stage "of the home and social life in Moscow," since 1814, and 40s of the XIX century.

Spektakl' "Shutniki" po odnoimennoj p'ese Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Ostrovskogo, god sozdanija - 1864. U bednogo otstavnogo pomeshhika Pavla Prohorovicha Obroshenov dve docheri. V mladshuju, Verochku, vljublen bednyj skromnyj junosha Aleksandr Petrovich Gol'cov. On delaet predlozhenie, kotoroe ohotno prinimaetsja, i uzhe idut dogovory o svad'be. No vyjasnjaetsja, chto s Gol'covym proizoshla beda - na pohorony materi on potratil chuzhie den'gi.

Naibolee izvestnoe proizvedenie V. A.Gilyarovskogo "Moskva i moskvichi", i segodnya pol'zuyushcheesya populyarnost'yu v shirokih chitatel'skih krugah, posvyashcheno Moskve, kotoruyu pisatel' udivitel'no gluboko znal i lyubil. Pod perom talantlivogo bytopisatelya voznikayut yarkie, koloritnye i dostovernye kartiny staroy Moskvy - ee dostoprimechatel'nostey, nravov i obychaev, zapominayushchiesya portrety ee obitateley. Sovremennomu chitatelyu budet interesno zaglyanut' v proshloe svoey stolicy, sopostavit' ego s ee nastoyashchim.