Otechestvennyy obschepit - ochen vazhnaya sostavlyayuschaya nashey obschey istorii. Da esche pryamo-taki "nashpigovannaya" literaturnymi tsitatami, vsevozmozhnymi vospominaniyami, legendami, baykami i dazhe anekdotami, bez kotoryh na Rusi ne obhodilas pochti ni odna trapeza. Povestvovanie N.Yamskogo povedet chitatelya cherez davno uzhe ne suschestvuyuschie ili sovershenno preobrazhennye restorannye zaly Moskvy. Zaderzhitsya u stolikov kafe i stoek barov, kotorye esli gde i sohranilis, to lish v pamyati sovremennikov. Rech v knige poydet i o vkusnyh veschah. Ili ne ochen vkusnyh, no, po krayney mere, udivitelnyh, na chto tak schedry nasha neprostaya otechestvennaya istoriya i nepodrazhaemyy rossiyskiy byt.