Excerpt - page 125: "... to resemble Giametta, in the miller the famous Russian singer Melnikov. The production did not go any further than a dress ..."
Excerpt - page 171: "... friendship. In a side street stands the refreshingly bi- zarre Melnikov House (Map pp140-1; Krivoarbatsky per 10; M Smolenskaya). This concoction of brick, plaster and diamond-shaped windows was built in 1927 by KonstantinMelnikov, the great con- structivist architect who was denounced in ..."