All the most important and interesting events from the life of the capital are collected on the pages of this book. Famous Muscovites, famous buildings, urban legends and unusual traditions. What is it really like - Moscow? Golden-headed, white-stone, filled with ancient secrets and the beating of modern life, the largest city in Russia in terms of population and the most populated of European cities. Stormy history has always coexisted here with a leisurely old Russian life. The history of Moscow was not easy: the Tatars and Napoleon burned it, the guardsmen of Ivan the Terrible and the rabble gathered under the banners of False Dmitry committed violence against Muscovites. Moscow survived the reforms of Peter the Great and Stalin's reconstruction. Many times the city changed beyond recognition... How did the first Moscow sovereigns choose their wives? Who was the most famous Freemasons in Moscow? What are "Khrushchev"? And how did the first Moscow dudes spend their time? About this and more in the new series "History of the City on the Fingers""!