Old Petersburg

Northern Palmyra - from the time when "young Russia matured under the genius of Peter" and up to the brilliant, aristocratic beginning of the 19th century.
The history of houses and palaces, parks and squares - and, above all, the people of St. Petersburg themselves, as they once were...
Lively and briskly written, which critics noted after the first publication. This book is easy and exciting to read, while at the same time containing a mass of rare, little-known and interesting facts that the author gleaned from long-lost, mostly private archives, testimonies of Petersburg old-timers and family legends passed down from generation to generation since the founding of Petersburg.