You probably remember this year: they broke the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. For the layman, it was worse than the October coup. Then, before the beginning of the novel, the author decided to write comments, but at that time he had a big-headed boy named Vyacheslav ...
Excuse me, can I start on the merits? The clinic where Matvey Ivanovich Andreishin works, the majestic twenty-seven-year-old psychiatrist, and Yegor Yegorych, the secretary of a big man, are suddenly sick jewelers, brothers Yuryev. A theft occurred in their workshop, and soon rumors spread about the disappearance of the golden crown, ordered by an allegedly unknown agent for the American emperor. Observing the sick, Dr. Andrejshin comes to the conclusion that the reason for their insanity is in unrequited love. The only trace of the stranger - the button of the workshop of S. Murfina - leads him to Susanna, the daughter of the former owner. The doctor falls in love with this blonde with a narrow, beautiful face. He is sure that he must “prevent the collapse of man” and heal with one phrase both jewelers, and Susanna, and the whole house where she lives.
So Matvey Ivanovich and Yegor Yegorych, who were going to the criminologists ’congress in Berlin, find themselves near house No. 42. Here they encounter Leon Ionovich Cherpanov, who came from the Urals, to recruit workers for foundry. Declaring himself a doctor "ugogorlonos" from the periphery, Andreishin expresses a desire to conclude an agreement and temporarily settle in this house. Cherpanov had no choice but to accept the first workers and introduce them into the communal housing equipped in the construction of the Moscow Empire.
Twenty housewives roared in the kitchen, roaring fifty of primus. Cherpanov is located in the bathroom. The top floor with columns was occupied by the family of Zhavoronkov, a former churchwarden, and now an ice cream man with a trade union ticket. Everyone knew that he “publicly sold ice cream, but secretly employed a building business” and, besides, he led a cell of atheists. The Murfins lived on the ground floor - mother, father, Uncle Savely, twenty-year-old Susanna and her older sister Lyudmila, who earned the nickname Bylinka on both fronts of the civil war. She writes the book “400 Losses” about her impressions. Like everyone doing speculation, Lyudmila repeats: “We are fans of realism <...> A large batch of oats is more expensive than the ability to pull a string of literature into a golden needle of fantasy”. However, the doctor believes that only Susanna "unites this aggregate of people", that she organized the disease of jewelers, but does not find evidence.
The second decade is on, and the doctor and Yegor Yegorych are postponing a trip to Berlin, watching the residents of the apartment, over the efforts of Cherepanov to create a proletarian core for work in Shadrinsk. Here the recruiter comes to the nail factory as a poet, ready to write about the best team. He collects money at a dinner party, makes calls: "Remember, our plant is tasked with processing not only ore, but also at the same speed as people." He demands that residents of the house recruit relatives, for example, 620 people from Zhavoronkov. "Six hundred - I understand, but twenty from where?" - "State Investigation ... They are reborn there." “Well, will they be emasculated or what?” Cherpanov promises that the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will be restored in the Urals. Uncle Savely talks about an unprecedented event of the degeneration of an entire Ural city thanks to the game of academic theaters.
A march is led by a doctor, but he is unable to hold on to a crowd that is rapidly dispersing. Among them there is no Cherepanov. The doctor calls him a fictitious figure, and Yegor Yegorych recalls the three confessions of Leon Ionovich. For the first time, he said that he was born in the family of a gymnasium teacher, came to Russia with his brother from Paris emigration, and created his biography through stamps. The second time he called himself the son of a circus magician Cherpanevsky, a descendant of an old noble family. Finally, he admits that he had an engraving establishment in Sverdlovsk, inherited from his father, Konstantin Pudozhgorsky, and made seals for speculators. Clients took his hands and forced him to go in search of the crown of the American emperor according to Cherpanov’s documents. The crown, according to him, is kept by Uncle Savely and disguised as a carriage spittoon. Somewhere in the house is the only evidence that confirms that the crown exists. This is the overseas costume of a mysterious agent left by him during the flight.
In vain did Cherpanov, the doctor, and Uncle Saveliy look for a suit from Zhavoronkov — he ended up in Lyudmila’s chest: “dark green cloth and golden buttons with double-headed eagles burst”. Syurtuk! They did not have time to find out if this was the costume, as the Lebedev brothers came, dissatisfied with the recruitment activity of Cherpanov. Grabbing a frock coat, Cherpanov rushes to run, the Lebedevs are chasing him, but the outcome of the chase is unknown ... Policemen called by Uncle Saveliy appear, police officers appear and take away the arrested residents of the house. At the sealed door, meet Dr. Andreishin, Egor Yegorych and the Yuryev brothers. Jewelers have recovered: they are not in love with Susanna and do not believe in the crown of the American emperor. Only the doctor hopes to break the legend of the crown, re-educate Susanna and marry her ... "Oooo, life goes away, ooooo ..." - recalls the unheard song.
