* Not far from the center of Moscow, next to the bustling Garden Ring, lay the quiet, modest Plushykha Street. The "Moscow province", which preserves, despite all the Soviet perestroika, traces of the old urban life. Fraught with many stories and mysteries. For example, the riddle of its name, which we will try to solve. We will walk along the street, take a look at Mukhina Gora and Rostovsky lanes. Let's look for the cafe "Three poplars" and "The Cat's House". Let's talk about the artists Repin and Baksheev, the Alexandrov Ensemble, and the difficult fate of Moscow restorers. We will see the wonderful mansions of the first half of the 19th century, appreciate the amazing mix of constructivism and half-timbered, talk about the architecture of the Stalin era and the grimaces of modern postmodernism. We will find out where Leo Tolstoy's childhood ended, where Chekhov was married, what they taught at the Agricultural College and where Soviet secret service workers lived.