About the book: 2022 / Sergei Belyakov is a historian and writer, author of the books “Gumilyov’s son Gumilyov”, “Shadow of Mazepa. Ukrainian nation in the era of Gogol”, “Spring of Nations. Russians and Ukrainians between Bulgakov and Petliura”, winner of the “Big Book” award, finalist of the “National Bestseller” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards. Marina Tsvetaeva’s son Georgy Efron, better known by his home name “Moore”, was born in the Czech Republic, grew up in France , but considered himself Russian. However, in pre-war Moscow, classmates, friends, and girls saw him as a foreigner, a Parisian boy. The “Parisian boy” was also Moore’s friend, Dmitry Seseman, who at the same time came to Moscow with his parents. The life of friends in the USSR seems to be a series of misfortunes: arrests and deaths of loved ones, homelessness, evacuation, hunger, a front where one of them will be wounded and the other will die... But there were also happy days in their Moscow life. Stalin’s Moscow is a shining showcase of the Soviet Union. Lincolns, Packards and ZISes race along the new wide streets, in Eliseevsky they sell delicacies: from black caviar and crabs to Roquefort... Eisenstein is staging "Valkyrie" at the Bolshoi Theater, Tairov's "Madame Bovary" is being shown at the Kamerny Theater, jazzmen play for Muscovites Eddie Rosner, Alexander Tsfasman and Leonid Utesov, and dance teachers earn more than engineers and doctors... A strange, cruel, but bright world, where in the morning they went to the NKVD reception with a package for their arrested relatives, and in the evening they sat in the National restaurant or listened to Svyatoslav Richter in the Tchaikovsky Hall. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.