In the section “From the Classics of the 20th Century” - “Berlin Sketches” by the outstanding Austrian novelist Joseph Roth (1892–1939) translated by Mikhail Rudnitsky. These are articles published in German newspapers in the 1920s and 30s. Here are discussions about the first Berlin skyscraper, the construction of which was still being planned; and mourning for the nameless dead of Berlin, whose photographs are hung in the police station; and thoughts about the fate of Russian emigrants in the capitals of Europe; and much more...