Kak razvlekalis' v rossiyskih stolicah

V knige rasskazano o stremitel'nom razvitii na rubezhe XIX-XX stoletiy "legkih zhanrov" (kuplet, yumoristicheskiy rasskaz, shansonetka, cyganskiy romans i dr.), to est' o stanovlenii russkoy dorevolyucionnoy estrady. Otdel'nye glavy vpervye posvyascheny shantanam, teatram "Fars", o kotoryh ranee pisat' bylo ne prinyato. Kratko oharakterizovany vydayuschiesya artisty, ostavivshie sled v otechestvennoy kul'ture, takie kak E.M.Granovskaya, kupletisty Sergey Sokol'skiy, Stanislav Sarmatov, pevcy A.D.Davydov, Anastasiya Vyal'ceva, Nataliya Tamara, Nadezhda Plevickaya, Yuriy Morfessi i mnogie drugie. Izdanie 2004g.