V nostal"gicheskikh novellakh avtora ozhivaet Moskva 40-kh, 50-kh, 60-kh, 70-kh, 80-kh. Ee koloritnye byt i nravy, unikal"nye tipazhi i sud"by podany bez loska, bez shika, bez muzejnogo glyantsa. S samozabvennoj vlyublennost"yu avtor priotkryvaet zavesu nad zhizn"yu v podvalakh i na cherdakakh, v moskovskikh dvorikakh i podvorotnyakh, nad mytarstvami bezdomnogo zhit"ya�