Autumn 1991 — Oleg Tsodikov's Private Parties

Oleg Tsodikov:
"In the early '90s I didn't really have my bearings in Moscow's nightlife. There were probably already some clubs by then, some DJs playing, but all that passed me by. As far as I remember, Moscow discos were then merely a variety of restaurant. People sat at tables, ate and drank, then grabbed girls, danced, and sat back down at their tables.
There were also private events, for a narrow circle of people. Acquaintances and acquaintances of acquaintances gathered at them, about a hundred people in the whole city. Back then we tried to throw such parties too, actively drawing in people from Petersburg, who had quite mastered this art. They were artists, people who threw private parties on the Fontanka. I got to know these guys through Rubek, a rather well-known character in Moscow, a great friend of the Petersburg artists and of the musicians of the band Kino.
At that time there was a certain barrier between "them" and "us." After all, Moscow, compared to Petersburg, was a more bourgeois city. And they represented a kind of ragamuffin underground, sometimes even with brawls."