The History of the Old Apartment

Author: Aleksandra Leonidovna Litvina

Illustrator: Anna Desnitskaya
Publisher: Samokat
Series: Standalone
ISBN: 978-5-00167-122-0
Pages: 56 (coated)
Cover type: 7B - hard (thick paper or cardboard)
Illustrations: Color
Dimensions: 345x250x10 mm

An old house in a quiet Moscow lane, six flights of stairs up and the door on the left—and we are at the Muromtsevs'. We entered an old Moscow apartment on an October evening in 1902 and stayed there for a whole hundred years. We met several generations of Muromtsevs, their neighbors and friends, and witnessed the meetings and partings, sorrows and joys, losses and hopes that many families in Russia experienced.
The story of the ordinary inhabitants of an old Moscow apartment reflects the history of our country in the 20th century. It was told to us not only by the characters themselves, but also by their belongings: furniture and clothes, dishes and books, games and everyday objects. After all, objects bear the imprint of time, preserving the memory and traces of the era in which they were created and served. They are witnesses to the history that is not written about in textbooks, but which is very important to each of us—the history of our families, our friends, the history of ourselves.
For younger and middle school ages.