Why did tents appear on the Kremlin towers? Where did the names of Silver, Kalashny, and Garnet Lanes come from? Why are there no rivers under some Moscow bridges? Why did the firefighters on Myasnitskaya never ride bay horses? What sweets were produced at the Siu, Abrikosov, and Einem factories? Which is faster to ride on a vanka or on a likach? How does the Moscow monorail work? What animals can you see today in Losiny Ostrov? The young reader will find answers to these and many other questions about Russia's largest, most mysterious, and wealthiest city in a book written by the foremost expert on Moscow. The book tells the history of the capital of the Russian state, its layout, the Kremlin, Moscow streets, squares, estates, rivers, gardens, famous and ordinary Muscovites, and life in the capital in different centuries.
