The former Petersburg. Prose of everyday life and poetry of the holiday

Festive festivities and routes of the heroes of Dostoevsky, St. Petersburg cottages, tavern establishments and petty shops, street signs, merchant houses and workshops of artists, sounds and spectacles ... This book is a collection of works about the daily life of old Petersburg, written by the famous cultural historian and literary critic Albin final. The reader finds out what place in the life of Petersburgers occupied Neva and white nights, how the townspeople spent leisure and had fun, how the life of merchants and painters was organized, whether the addresses of the heroes of "crime and punishment" existed and whether it was worth continuing their search. Many newspaper publications, memoirs and documents that have become the sources of these research, the author introduces into circulation for the first time. A special section is devoted to Petersburg leaders of the past: from Faddei Bulgarin, who painted the real panorama of the modern capital in his essays, to the Society of Old Petersburg, which retained the city heritage in the years when the memory of him was in jeopardy