Antique Illustrated Literary and Artistic Edition LEADING Moscow Memories of contemporaries Moscow in the second half of the 19th century. Preparation of text, foreword and notes N.S. Ashukina Moscow, 1964. 1st Lifetime Edition of the Author! Some illustrations are reproduced in the book for the first time! Publisher: "Moscow Worker" Artist S. Chahiryan Volume: 432 pages + 10 sheets of individual labels with 30 illustrations Format: 20, 6 cm X 13,9 cm x 3,4 cm Condition: excellent! Book without loss.All 30 interesting illustrations (copies of old photographs, old engravings, paintings) are also fully preserved. A book without library seals and without private exlibris! This now rare book of memoirs of contemporaries about Moscow of the second half of the XIX century was published in 1964 during the life of its author-compiler - tireless researcher of Moscow antiquity, the largest specialist in the field of Moscow local history - Nikolai Sergeyevich Ashukin (1890-1972). However, Nikolai Ashukin entered the history of Russian culture not only as an authoritative Muscovite, but also as a poet and translator, literary critic, literary critic and literary historian. In the book "Leaving Moscow" (1964), presented today to your attention, Nikolai Ashukin collected memoirs under one cover, acquaintance with which helps an inquisitive reader to make a kind of trip to the past - to the second half of the XIX century and feel the unforgettable atmosphere and unique spirit of pre-revolutionary, but alas, gone Moscow. Selecting the memoirs, the compiler sought to give the descendants the most concrete material that concludes the true everyday life of the departed Moscow. Collected in the book memoirs of different authors describe the life and manners of various segments of the Moscow population - the nobility and intelligentsia, merchants and philistines, officials and students, Moscow bomond and trade workers, artisans and ordinary workers. Moscow antiquity comes to life in their stories about police officers, budochniks and quartermen, about bookies and antiques, about trade rows, taverns and bazaars, about folk festivals and merchant weddings, about fist and rooster fights. Yes, the most diverse pictures from the life of old Moscow are drawn by the authors of memoirs collected in this book, which is unique in its content. Memoirists lead the reader through the streets of Moscow, then noisy and lively in the center, then remote from him, quiet and sleepy - in Zamoskvorechye, Taganka and Rogozhskaya - in the "dark kingdom", depicted in the dramas and comedies of A.N.Ostrovsky. Briefly about author-compiler Nikolai Sergeevich Ashukin was born on August 23 (September 4), 1890 in Moscow, in an impoverished merchant family. He graduated from the Meshchanskoye School of the Moscow Merchant Society (1905), and studied as a free listener at the Moscow Archaeological Institute (1910-1913). He served in the office of the Shustov winery (1905-1915). At the same time he worked in the office of the magazine "Rampa and Life" (1913-1914). For some time he lived in Yaroslavl, when he became the editorial secretary in the publishing house of K. F. Nekrasov. By this time (1914-1916) include extensive literary acquaintance Ashukina: K. D. Balmont, I. A. Belousov, A. A. Blok, V. Y. Bryusov, many others. The first wife of Nikolai Ashukina - Olga Dmitrievna Naumova (1891" ?). The marriage lasted from May 5, 1919 to March 2, 1936. O.D. Naumova was born in Vitebsk, graduated with a gold medal from the women's gymnasium in the island of Pskov province. She joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, was a secretary in the office of the Constituent Assembly, secretary of the administration of affairs 1st House of Soviets VTsIK in the hotel "National"; after receiving the diploma of the 2nd Moscow State University (1926) worked in libraries - Leninskaya, Gosplana, Tolstoy Museum, MSPI; was the chief bibliographer of the Institute of Marx-Engels-Lenin (1946-1956), received a personal pension and lived in the village of Kuntsevo (Pravda street, d. 19, sq. 15). The second wife is Maria Grigorievna Ashukina (born Zenger) (1894-1980), the eldest daughter of G. E. Zenger. In her first marriage, she had a daughter Elizabeth A. Muravyov (1922" ?), who restored the original text of the book by N. S. Ashukina "Pushkinskaya Moscow" ("Moscow in the life and work of A. S. Pushkin"). Umer N. Ashukin February 9, 1972 and buried at Vostryakovsky Cemetery. The greatest treasure is a good library. V.G. 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