Taina gospodina Medoksa, ili Povest' o starom moskovskom teatre - Anisimova N.

The author addresses the last two decades of Catherine II's reign, when interest in the theater, including the musical, captured all segments of the urban population, from the nobles-containing serfs of the troupes to simple apprentices.

In the center of the narrative - a man of an adventurous warehouse, once known throughout Moscow, a talented businessman Mikhail Egorovich Medox, a wealthy Englishman, the owner of a public theater.

Book tells the story of joyful, dramatic and adventurous, almost detective events in the life of Medox, as well as the fate of talented actors of his troupe.