At a time when people in Paris went to the fountain for water, when almost every district had corners reminiscent of a village, on a quiet, shady street not far from the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where the musketeers once settled, there lived one woman. She had no idea that great upheavals were coming that would reshape the capital of the world, and the blades of the workers sent by the zealous prefect would crush old Paris. In the same way, the inhabitants of quiet Moscow alleys did not know that someone’s decisive hand had already drawn a straight line that cut the old Arbat in two. But what to do if you happen to live in an era of change?..This is what Tatiana de Ronay, author of the famous novel “Sarah’s Key,” talks about in her new book “The House in which I was Loved,” published for the first time in Russian.