The book is dedicated to Sennaya Square, a place that, despite the outward gloss, personifies the "underside" of the city's parade. The most beautiful Church of the Assumption here was adjacent to the market, the Vyazemskaya Lavra - with the houses of wealthy owners... Nowadays, fashionable shopping centers are peacefully getting along next to the grocery rows. How such a contradictory area combining the opposite poles of urban life was formed, what events took place here for almost three hundred years of history, what kind of people left their mark in it - the reader learns about all this from the book of Zoya Yurkova.