Sergei Lukyanenko. Day Watch (№ 290779)

The cobblestones of red square, remembering and unhurried step kings, and boots the revolutionary soldiers, and the tracks of the Soviet armored monsters, and the ranks of the may day pillars, seemed the epitome of the Moscow permanence. This city has stood and will stand, and nothing - not the squabbles of ordinary people, nor even the eternal swordplay patrols - can't shake this quiet grandeur.