Genius of a place that gives rise to geniuses. Petersburg as a socioprodic phenomenon

In St. Petersburg, it becomes real what will seem incredible in any other place.
Flooding - everyday phenomenon. The northern lights are almost every winter, like the rain on New Year"s Eve. The appearance of a ghost is not even very surprising. Petersburgers are more likely to surprise the lack of miracles.
Petersburg can be loved or not to love. But few people managed to ignore the city. There are almost no indifferent to St. Petersburg, only a few were able to touch him and continue to live as if there was no meeting.
Petersburg wakes up the imagination, makes you think faster. Petersburg is the birthplace of a huge number of innovations in both Russia and throughout Europe. Here theories were created that determine the modern scientific picture of the world, here the scientific and technical discoveries and developments that underlie modern civilization were committed. All this became possible thanks to the unique qualities of St. Petersburg as a location - unity of the socio -historical environment and its occupied territory.
This book is about why our city is just such, and not another, and how it forms people