This book by L. Kolodny from the series "Moscow in the Streets and Faces" consists of two parts. The first part tells about the colossal losses suffered by Moscow in the pre-war years as a result of the so-called "socialist reconstruction," the struggle of Stalin's party with religion. The second part of the book is devoted to the districts of Arbat and Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. Suvorov, Pushkin, Lev Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, many outstanding writers, composers, artists who glorified Moscow and Russia lived here.