The house of government, now more known as House on an embankment, was the epicentre of the real life - and to the real death - socialistic empire. Collecting the enormous array of data about his inhabitants, a historian Yuriy Слезкин created unusually living epic linen: from private biographies of old bolshevists, from their domestic peripeteias, gladnesses and sorrows, habits, привязанностей and self-contradictions is folded whole portrait to Russian revolution and her fate: birth, course of life and natural completion.