Residents. Amazing Stories from the Lives of the People of City E.

Here was born the great sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, the disgraced Marshal Zhukov and the famous Ural storyteller Bazhov once met and became friends. Vladimir Shakhrin — who has not yet become the leader of the legendary band "Chaif" — is changing records at a flea market; Nikolai Kolyada is opening his authorial drama theater, while the streets are being entertained by the old man Bukashkin — an unforgettable face of the city. The Ipatiev House still stands immovably — the site of the execution of the imperial family, and the future master of the city Boris Yeltsin is still just a student.
The book by Anna Matveeva about all of them — the people, the houses, and the stories of city E. Paired portraits of bright personalities connect centuries and rhyme with destinies. 1. A reissue of the award-winning book named after P. P. Bazhov: nine novellas about eighteen residents of Yekaterinburg, whose fates changed not only the history of the city but also of the country.

• 2. The heroes of the book are real people: Bazhov and Zhukov, Yeltsin and Ipatiev, Ernst Neizvestny and Bella Dizhur, Vladimir Shakhrin and Vladimir Mulavin, and many others.
• 3. The prose of Anna Matveeva connects facts from the lives of the heroes with almost magical patterns of fates.

Anna Matveeva is the author of the novels "Every Hundred Years", "Dyatlov Pass, or the Mystery of Nine", "The Enviable Feeling of Vera Stenina", and collections of stories. A finalist for the "Big Book" and "National Bestseller" awards.
The book "RESIDENTS" is nine stories, eighteen heroes, and one unusual city through the eyes of a native Yekaterinburger Anna Matveeva: face to face.