Moscow stories and anecdotes. From Ivan Kalita to the present day. The most frivolous excursion
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- Hey, where do you live?
- Moscow.
Ha! I've never seen you there!
“Humanity laughs and lets go of its past.” – Karl Marx
Joke travels poorly in time and space. Sometimes we don't understand
What our parents laugh at, and to unravel the reason our grandmothers smile,
Sometimes, a real puzzle. But we feel like we're in town when
We begin to understand the meaning of city jokes. And long past days cease to be
Date columns and textbook paragraphs, when we understand that history
They did not build bronze monuments, but living people and nothing human was for them.
foreign.
There is no known culture in which the phenomenon of laughter is absent. And in some moments of history, humor became a real weapon out of leisurely entertainment!
Today we will walk from the Lenin Library to the end of Arbat and look at history from an unusual angle.
Particles and sayings, fables and historical anecdotes, caricatures and feuilletons,
architectural jokes, finally. You will be surprised, but they have enough of it.
a short route.
Where is the false jaw of Moscow, why Melnikov built a house without
What do they do on Kudykina Mountain, who are the “swimmers”, what is a “horse”?
Why are you yelling at Ivanovo and so much more?