Behind the high fences of one and a half hundred foreign embassies, life is in full swing with its own customs and rituals. Many of the embassies are in unique old mansions. Almost all of these houses are covered in romantic legends" have their own exciting history and family secret. So, the mansion where the Nigerian embassy is located today was owned by A.V. Suvorov, and where the Greek embassy is located is Governor-General Zakrevsky, nicknamed by Muscovites for his rudeness Churban Pasha. The reader learns about these and many other legendary and widely unknown sights of the capital from the new book of Irina Sergievskaya, the author of the already well-known "mysterious Moscow."