This historical district of old Moscow is called the country of Russian merchants and at the same time the country of Ostrovsky. The great Russian playwright was born here, and he captured all the unique merchant life, customs, and special way of life in his plays. Zamoskvorechye keeps the memory of other prominent figures of Russian culture. On Pyatnitskaya Street, in the outbuilding of a merchant's house, a young L.N. Tolstoy, where A.N. Ostrovsky and A.A. Fet. In the house on Bolshaya Ordynka, F.M. Dostoevsky. Pyatnitskaya and Valovaya streets and Monetchikovsky lanes are associated with the activities of the famous Russian publisher and educator I.D. Sytin. His printing house was repeatedly visited by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Yesenin worked here. On the Zamoskvoretsky side there was perhaps the largest concentration of secondary schools. The famous Moscow scholar Nina Moleva, inviting to travel through the centuries, helps the reader to learn many legends and unravel the secrets of the centuries that Zamoskvorechye still keeps.