About the book: 2020 / The name of the Russian writer Sofia Nikolaevna Shil (pseudonym Sergei Orlovsky, 1863 - 1928) is known to few, even among specialists. Part of her literary heritage was kept in archives and was recently published. The last manuscript, “The Heart of the Fatherland,” remained unpublished. About Moscow, its past and present, people who left a mark in the chronicle of the city - short essays full of poetry, love and bitterness, written far from Moscow in 1920 - 1921, a time when it seemed that history itself has already ended. The text, preserved in the Norwegian National Library in Oslo in the archive of Olaf Brock, is published for the first time.