The dead monuments of Moscow are what the author tells about on the pages of this small book. A lively story about each of them, about the events and names associated with it, recreates the image of old Moscow, its aroma, the atmosphere of everyday life and artistic life of that time and at the same time gives rise to a nagging feeling of loss of visible spiritual ties with the culture of past eras, that is, the soil on which only the growth of the person himself is possible, a spiritual person.