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Moscow and Muscovites

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Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky was a Russian writer, journalist, and a Moscow legend and chronicler. Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the most vibrant and colorful figures in Moscow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For his kindness and responsiveness, he was known as "Uncle Gilyai," and for his journalistic talent, he was known as "the king of reportage." Ilya Repin used him as a model for a Zaporozhian Cossack writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. In his articles, essays, and memoirs, Gilyarovsky captured everyday life in Russia at the turn of the century: through these invaluable eyewitness accounts, the memory of the past of Moscow, the Moscow region, and the Russian provinces has been preserved. Gilyarovsky's most famous work is "Moscow and Muscovites" (1934). It is the fruit of personal experience and a keen reporter's interest in ordinary people and their lives. It is an attempt to capture and preserve for posterity, for us, a vanishing reality. This is perhaps the most gripping story ever told about Moscow.
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