The designer and specialist for Cyrillic typography Victoria Sarapina takes us on a trip through her beloved hometown Moscow.

After a very funny opener quoting not only a James Bond movie, but above all proposing to have some vodka together – for vodka supports better communication – , she offers an amazing view on the particular importance that typography had in Russian architecture throughout history.

Sarapina gives an approach to understand the many possible purposes of typography in general: »practical, informational, loftily ideological and abstractly philosophical.«