For the first time, a cycle of short stories about interclass marriages “Women and Ladies”, a collection of stories and legends “Myths of Life”, as well as a cycle from Moscow life “Singing Birds (Moscow Morals)” are published in full. The appendix contains essays “On the fight against prostitution,” published 1899–1904. in the capital's newspapers.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.