At the age of 14, I got out of the Mayakovskaya metro station and went to look for the Street Krasina, because I knew that somewhere my new school is there.
Made a circle - down in Tverskaya to McDonalds, then alleys through the Patriarch - and almost miraculously cooked in the garden the right pointer. Cards, naturally, I did not have with me. Tired - because the heat, July and new sandals. But I found the school and met the class teacher.
A completely ordinary story, like everyone else. My brother, coming out of school in Greater Kharitonievsky, take a walk, completely accidentally crossed over the garden ring and suddenly found the Bauman garden. A year earlier, he descended into the subway on Lubyanka to get to the "Theatrical" and buy a hot dog in a friend to him, just run past the "Children's World" for some reason did not come to mind. After some other urban Olympiad in literature, we were circled with a classmate for two hours in the vicinity of the Novodevichi Monastery and were very surprised when they were back to the metro station "Sportiva".
It became even more interesting to life when you tried the time of the rebellious youth, and a new geography was opened - so you suddenly find out that you have a great oriented on the unknown you, Churchnika street. After all, how many stores have passed there on the way to visit friends in a hostel? And the apartments of newfound classmates are completely scattered from Hovrino to Belyaevo ... and on. And nothing: get it without any taxi even in the dark.
Of these stories, which, then adult uncle and aunt, retell each other with laughter, and make up your relationship with Moscow. So children from the column villages of Troparevo, Chertanovo and Medvedkovo turn into normal Muscovites who have closed eyes find the right way out to "Lubyanka" and unmistakably fall out to the Nogin's head on the "China City", where everything is not in human. The city loves when he is studying his legs. And how many romantic first teenage donel donel will take place if everyone knew exactly where to go and where to turn it out!
Histories of the genre "Fuck, how I got lost!" Soon there will be no. They will remain in the XX century. Children now do not go to the subway and do not walk around the city - themselves, without parents. To enter the child at the border of the garden ring, the car is absolutely necessary, they enlightened me recently in the social network. Because it is impossible to push in the subway with children. Well, parking is now the road, so the most reasonable thing is not to take out a child outside the native sleeping area until graduation. There is no need to us this cosmopolitanism, let it be a citizen of Bibirevo - it sounds proudly!
And after the schoolchildhood Olympiad will not let go of his way - will be lost! He learned from his native school, and to be, but from the one that in the next area, home will not reach home. After the excursion with the class in Peter, they will not let go to the hands of parents. What walks in Dawn Moscow, what are you talking about! What coffee in the kiosk at three stations, wandering lanes and sudden detection of a couple of architectural monuments on a new bass? It is impossible. Just for the handle, only by car, only from point A to point B.
And, of course, it is impossible to wander around Moscow after the prom and meet the dawn, where it will have. This event is strictly regulated: Red Square or Gorky Park - and Cleaning around the perimeter.
Moscow began talking with us in a language, understandable even to three years old. Here, please: since 2014, 93.7 thousand houses have been installed in Moscow and 11.4 thousand separate urban pointers. Soon there are several more thousands. Outputs from the subway are numbered. Each pointer will soon be with the QR code. On the busement window marked not only its end station, but also the entire route (with the color notation of the metro stations!). Behind the approach of this bus can be monitored in real time and not staring at the stop in a barren waiting - and do not descend down the tram paths to the embankment with the mood "when to catch up, then and sit down." There is no such chance, everything is calculated. For each teenager - two smartphones, smart watches and a tablet, in which you can build a route until the passage through the courtyards, which only local people knew about.
Will it not go there and roll there? Blind, or what?! Well, a man who jershes you for the sleeve on Malase and will ask a simple natural question, they say, how to go into ... How much is it in the letters ... PE-TRO-TRIG-SKI Lane ... Calls only sincere and unkind perplexity: peasant , what are you banned in Google?! "The route is built!", And put the legs: five steps to the right, 50 meters left ... just do not turn into a look at the smartphone, otherwise the Muscovites themselves are on you and digest: under the feet you need to look, otherwise you should look at the feet!
Conveniently. Progressively. But somehow not at all romantic.
Moscow prefers equal. Not those who roll their eyes and exclaims: "Yes, here the damn legs will be broken!" This is not in Moscow. Better learn to snort: they say, 12 outputs from the subway on Lubyanka, so what? I can not imagine how you can get confused there, everyone remembers the legs!
I really wish my children a couple of times to get lost in Moscow. Not just go to Odessa and go to Kherson (residents of Zyuzino understood), and how to wander around the catches - so that the capital wanders them with a boulevard ring, then Garden. Go beyond the smell of chocolate, jumping out of the aeroexpress on the Paveletsky railway station, and accidentally find the old mosque. Especially climbing Starosadsky to see what the historic is there, where their eccentric grandmother read books. And somewhere else to find the house of a favorite literary character and discover that he was demolished within the framework of the Renovation program.
How to walk to life? Discharge smartphone, of course.