The story of the tragic love of Isadora Duncan and Sergey Yesenin, who spoke different languages with an 18-year difference in age, unfolded in Khamovniki, where, upon arrival in Moscow, an American dancer settled. Here lived the People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, who played his role in the life of Yesenin and Duncan. Anastasia Kaganovich offers to take a walk in places where the meetings of Yesenin and Duncan were held a century ago.

After graduating to pupils, correctional boarding schools have a hard time: without a basic school education and at least some life experience there is little chance of realizing themselves. Society also applies to them without sympathy and with prejudice, not understanding how on earth to adult graduates of orphanages should be treated by special.

On January 19, in Moscow, a traditional rally of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anastasia Baburova, who were killed on Prechistenka on this day in 2009, was held in Moscow. The second time in a row, the Moscow City Hall under the pretext of coronavirus refused to conduct an anti -fascist procession. More than 100 people laid flowers to the portraits of the dead, discussing among themselves a loud murder and his victims.

The workshop of the restorer and former journalist Peter Sabille until 2019 was in Khamovniki, in the former Vinogradovsky baths in the 2nd Basy Lane. In the 2010s, the baths, recalls Sabil, was a cross between the squat and the creative plant, artists, animators, musicians, and restorers of ancient cars and motorcycles worked and hung out there. Moh publishes the emotional and nostalgic story of Seibil about this place.

In the Khamovniki in the territory of the Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU), a monument to Vladimir Gerier, the creator of the first educational institution in Russia with a university program, will be erected. Artem Aleksandrov talks about why the sculpture, it would seem, is a completely consistent historical personality, was coordinated with a creak. First, because of the unsuccessful figure, a gymnasium student, then because of the deceased Minister of the Ministry of Emergencies.

Since November 20, in the central and southern administrative districts of Moscow , "everything went in a new way." Muscovites, most of whom did not know about the innovations, were shocked by the disappearance of familiar bus routes.

The improvement of the Arbat lanes, which is discussed since the end of 2019, the city hall planned for the coming 2022. Local residents fear that the unique atmosphere of this historical region will be destroyed, insist that template solutions are not suitable for him. In the city hall, all comments and suggestions are still ignored. Maya Baidakova talks about the main drawbacks of the developed project for the reconstruction of the lanes.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the first battens of “bat” in Russia opened in the Hamovniki house in Khamovniki. It was conceived, according to the literary critic of Nikolai Efros, as "an intimate circle for mutual amusement and fun of the actors of the Art Theater in the post -lane clock." However, later, Kabar became a full -fledged theater and after the revolution toured North and South America and Europe. Anastasia Kaganovich tells the story of the "bat." Evening, half of the tenth.

There are more and more buildings in Moscow on which steel signs appear with the name of the executed and a hole instead of a photograph. The idea of the project “Last address” is to perpetuate the memory of ordinary people who became victims of Stalinist repressions. Although about a hundred memorial signs have already been installed in Khamovniki, sometimes the project has difficulties here.

In the recent elections to the State Duma, the coordinator of the Lisaalat Movement, Oleg Leonov, was supported by the Moscow Mayoria, the well -known in the Yablichnik district, Sergei Mitrokhin. Ilya Azar talked with Leonov about the past elections and why he had already joined the News Party faction and voted for the candidacy of United Russia Vyacheslav Volodin for the post of speaker, although he promised to remain an independent deputy in the election program.

In the past six months, the state of the state with independent journalism has reached a new level: “Medusa”*, Vtimes*, The Insider*, “Rain”*and “Important Stories”*(as well as more than 20 journalists in personal quality) are recognized as foreign agents. The work of publications and the life of journalists with this stigma are sharply complicated, but the situation of non -state media in Russia was very difficult.

Residents of Khamovnikov and city protection organizations have long protested against the construction of the Ryabushinsky business center across the road from the estate of Leo Tolstoy. Employees of the writer’s museum located in it call the new building “ugly”. Recently, more specific ones were added to aesthetic claims: due to construction work on the walls and ceiling of the museum, cracks were formed. Artem Alexandrov tells what is happening with the Moscow house of the great writer.

People read paper books less and less, so non -set bookstores in Moscow can be found infrequently. Nevertheless, at the intersection of Gagarinsky and Chertolsky lanes for several years, the “Bookstore of Pyresva” has been working for several years. Artem Alexandrov found out whether her slogan corresponds to reality: “More than just a bookstore.” The entrepreneur Kira Pureva opened her first bookstore in 2017 on Usacheva Street.

In the building of the Polivanovsky gymnasium famous in pre -revolutionary Moscow, two children's schools have been working at the Prechistenka for many years - the musical name of Muradeli and the artistic name of Serov. And in the courtyard of an old estate in their workshops, professional artists create. In one of them, an amazing person worked for many years - the restorer Savva Vasilievich Yamshchikov.

On December 17, 2020, after a long illness, the head of the Khamovniki district, Olga Shovgenya, died. In the spring, in its place, the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin appointed Maxim Deryugin, who since 2013 headed the Arbat district council. Artem Aleksandrov found out that the deputies and residents of the neighboring area think about Deryugin and what to expect from the official of the Khamovniks.