This book is a kind of farewell to the club, which for more than seventy years was one of the most original and unique in the history of Russian football. This is an attempt to take a last look at his past - ancient and recent. Stop and look back. Collect stones. This is a farewell and at the same time a new meeting with the great names who created the glory of the team, and the footballers of the next generations, albeit more modestly, but who tried to preserve it. This is a story about how a powerful “state within a state” eventually collapsed, burying it under with its wreckage and its brainchild - the Moscow Torpedo football team, which, apparently, will never again be in our football, at least in its original form.