Dom pravitel'stva. Saga o russkoi revoliutsii - Slezkin Iu.L.

Yuri Slezkin tells the story of the Soviet Union through the history of one of its most famous, revealing and tragic symbols. Government House, aka the First House of Soviets, aka the legendary House on the waterfront. The elite of the USSR lived here. Scientists and writers, actors and party figures, marshals and inventors, all-powerful tyrants and their victims, those who waited with delight at the entrance for autographs, and those whose name was afraid to pronounce even in the kitchens. Demjan Mryansky and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexey Stakhanov and Artyom Mikoyan, Georgiy Shchukov and Ivan Bagramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blucher. In the 1930s and 1940s, about 800 residents of the house were repressed. During the great terror, some apartments changed for several owners a month. "Government House" is a documentary story about how this house was born, developed and died. And with it the whole country.