This book was written back when local self-government was alive and well in the Moscow region. You won’t believe it, but mayors of cities near Moscow were elected by residents. There were candidates, there were pre-election intrigues and even squabbles, and the people loved pre-election rallies - everything happened. The political life of the castle was whistling, letting off steam. And so the authorities near Moscow, looking at the clouds of steam over the city of Dzerzhinsky, began to think: do we need local self-government? And I decided that it was not necessary. This story is about the last days of local government in the Moscow region.