“It’s cold. The grass at the deserted hippodrome turned brown. There are no doors or windows near the remains of stone buildings... Previously, a high fence separated from the Khodynskoye field a building in the courtyard where jockeys weighed in at the races, and next to it stood a wooden house for the circle keeper. Something remains of the garden in front of the house, the fence and fence of the garden have been destroyed, and from the windows of the house there is a view of the bare Khodynskoye field and the Vagankovskoye cemetery. A family lives in a house... They are hungry, cold..."