A novel about a feat that forever remained one of the brightest in Russian history. A novel about the high patriotism of the most ordinary people. They belong to different classes and classes. They are not heroes at all. Simply - Muscovites, not at all ideal, loving, beloved, dreaming of being happy and successful... But when Napoleon's troops enter Moscow, ordinary Muscovites become heroes capable of tremendous risk and high self-sacrifice. And - Moscow is on fire, set on fire by its own residents. A fiery hell unfolds under the feet of the invaders...