A collection of memories about the life of the Moscow house of N. A. Olshevskaya and V. E. Ardov, where Anna Akhmatova lived for a long time in the post-war years and where famous figures of literature and art visited. The reader will see a tragic period of history from an unexpected, anecdotal perspective. The heroes of the book are B. Pasternak, F. Ranevskaya, I. Ilyinsky and other remarkable personalities. The book includes the stories “The Legendary Ordynka” by Archpriest Mikhail Ardov, “Table-talks on Ordynka” by Boris Ardov and “Next to Akhmatova” by Alexei Batalov.< /p>