This book invites you to return to childhood, to those places where the heroes of our fairy tales come from, where miracles, where the goblin wanders and the mermaid sits on the branches. It is about cities known to everyone and unexpected interesting places, about recipes with history from local residents and cooks reviving Russian cuisine. We'll get lost in three pines, bake a five-filling pie, pop into a garden cafe for tea and make a mermaid riddle. The merchant traditions of Kolomna and the evil spirits of the Vladimir forests, the cathedrals of Perm and the Vyatka Kikimors, the old monasteries and capitals of the Golden Ring, the history of Nizhny Novgorod and the most famous cats of Russia are only part of what we will meet on our journey. Rather, open the book: the steamboat is already buzzing on Golutvin and started his song Cat Bayun!