The final part of the trilogy, “The Life of a Russian Everyman,” continues the description of the Russian city. Just as the appearance of the city was varied, so was the composition of the city’s inhabitants. Not to mention the fact that about half of the urban population, and in some places even more, were peasants who came from the village - seasonal workers, and sometimes permanent residents, the townspeople were members of the imperial family, starting with the tsar himself, courtiers, ministers, numerous officials, officers and soldiers, industrial workers, students of various educational institutions, etc., etc., up to the special “urban classes” - merchants and philistines. Subject to historically established, and for the most part legislatively established rules of life of the class society, each of these groups lived its own separate daily life, of course, mixing like oil in water, but not merging into one. Of course, class boundaries were broken, but the modus vivendi was generally preserved until the end of the Russian Empire. This conglomerate of lifestyles formed the grandiose picture of our culture