The English Queen's Tablecloth (Letters of a Russian Traveler)
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AuthorМихаил Бару
How did a tablecloth embroidered in the village of Kadom end up on the English queen's table? Why was Michurin expelled from the Pronsk gymnasium? Why did the landowner from Yelatma decide to fly to the Moon and how did it end? Continuing the artistic exploration of the Russian hinterland begun in the book "Unprinted Gingerbread", Mikhail Baru writes new witty essays about lesser-known towns and villages — Sergach, Skopin, Mikhaylov, Zavolzhsk, Shatsk, and others, creating his own Face Chronicle, his Tsar-Book about the Russian province. Behind the modest county facade of these towns often hide not only the charm of local color but also traces of great history: the fates of these settlements