"Syn Mariny T Svetaevo Georgi fron, bolee izvestny pod domashnim imenem "Mur", rodilsi a v Chekhii, vyros vo Frant sii, no schital sebi a russkim. Odnako v predvoenno Moskve odnoklassniki, prii ateli, devushki videli v nem - inostrant sa, parizhskogo mal chika. "Parizhskim mal chikom" byl i drug Mura, Dmitri Sezeman, v to zhe vremi a priekhavshi s roditeli ami v Moskvu. Zhizn druze v SSSR kazhetsi a cheredo neschasti : aresty i gibel blizkikh, bezdom e, vakuat sii a, golod, front, gde odin iz nikh budet ranen, a drugo pogibnet... No v ikh moskovsko zhizni byli i schastlivye dni. Stalinskai a Moskva - sii ai ushchai a vitrina Sovetskogo Soi uza. Po novym shirokim ulit sam mchalis "linkol ny", "pakkardy" i ZISy, v Eliseevskom prodavali delikatesy: ot cherno ikry i krabov do rokfora. zenshte n stavil "Val kirii u" v Bol shom teatre, v Kamernom shla "Madam Bovari" - i sam Voroshilov s udovol stviem khodil na spektakli Tairova. Dli a moskviche igrali dzhazmeny ddi Roznera, Aleksandra T Sfasmana i Leonida Utesova, a uchiteli a tant sev zarabatyvali bol she inzhenerov i vrache ... Stranny , zhestoki , no i arki mir, gde utrom shli v priemnui u NKVD s peredache dli a arestovannykh rodnykh, a vecherom sideli v restorane �Nat sional ili slushali Svi atoslava Rikhtera v Zale Cha kovskogo." --Back cover.The son of Marina Tsvetaeva Georgy Efron, better known under the house name "Moore", was born in the Czech Republic, grew up in France, but considered himself Russian. However, in pre-war Moscow, classmates, friends, girls saw him as a foreigner, a Parisian boy. Moore's friend, Dmitry Seseman, who at the same time arrived with his parents in Moscow, was also a "Parisian boy". The life of friends in the USSR seems to be a series of misfortunes: arrests and deaths of loved ones, homelessness, evacuation, hunger, the front, where one of them will be wounded and the other will die ... But there were happy days in their Moscow life. Stalin's Moscow is a shining showcase of the Soviet Union. Lincolns, Packards and ZISs rushed along the new wide streets, delicacies were sold in Eliseevsky: from black caviar and crabs to Roquefort. Eisenstein staged "The Valkyrie" at the Bolshoi Theater, "Madame Bovary" was on at the Chamber Theater - and Voroshilov himself went to Tairov's performances with pleasure. Jazzmen Eddie Rozner, Alexander Tsfasman and Leonid Utyosov played for Muscovites, and dance teachers earned more than engineers and doctors ... A strange, cruel, but bright world, where in the morning they went to the NKVD reception with a transfer for arrested relatives, and in the evening they sat in a restaurant " National" or listened to Svyatoslav Richter in the Tchaikovsky Hall. --Machine translation.