No one seemed to notice the destruction of the Uzukuya Mansion. Well, she burned and burned. "What is this? But this event is a cultural disaster. The estate was associated with the philosophers Trovetskoi brothers. And there in 1900, their close friend, Vladimir Solovyov, died. Later, when during the Soviet period "Uzkoya" was handed over to the sanatorium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the estate was also visited by many famous people. And the mansion itself is located in the forest just 10 minutes' walk from the paleontological museum. I remember those majestic columns of the main entrance - now they flash with reports from the fire, all blackened with soot. I remember the cows that grazed on the grass by the inhabitants of the wooden houses in the vicinity. Now they were broken, and the residents were thrown out to quickly build another residential complex there, right next to the estate, right in the forest park. And here we return to the question. Why did this catastrophic loss of an important cultural monument disappear? Yes, because it pales in comparison to the disaster that befell all of Moscow, which is corrupted and turns into a monstrous quasi-Shanghai, regardless of anything. A few days ago I walked along a street in Semenya to a conference at the Higher School of Economics. I see that an old hospital building nearby has been demolished. On the fence there is a rendering of what they want to build there. At first I couldn't believe my eyes - a huge glass tower of 130 meters. And, ****, in the middle of old two-story mansions! There are simply no censored words. And what about the 14-story business center they want to "decorate" Khytrovka with? The list goes on and on. So the death of "Tsar" is only a small chapter in a drama on a more cyclopean scale - the destruction of the historic Moscow we knew and loved. Well, the new residential complex next to the ashes of the estate will be built according to schedule, there is no doubt about that. Mortgage, promotions from the developer, with or without finishing, keys tomorrow, call... Text by Alexander Kharmov N. on.