Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya - writer, photographer, daughter of the famous poet Robert Rozhdestvensky. This book is about one Moscow address - st. Vorovsky, 52. There, in the basement next to the Central House of Writers, the Central House of Writers, where the damp and dark communal apartment at the Writers' Club was located, my great-grandmother arrived with her children in the 1920s, my mother was born there, I was born there. In this round courtyard behind the wrought-iron gates of the former Sollogubov estate, there was a special life according to its own rules and strange and amazing people lived. There were dates and funerals, boozes and wars, births and follies. There, young Pentecostals - they will become sixties poets later - arranged poetry readings under the sullen gaze of bronze Tolstoy. This is the courtyard of my childhood, my first address. The author, in a confidential and cozy conversation with the reader, shares precious memories of the bygone era of her childhood, of loved ones, of the joy and grief that her first home saw.