Legends and were old Kronstadt

Already at the first mention of the word "Kronstadt", the embankments and the picket fence of ship masts, a chime of bottles and wet paving stones of the pavement, low Baltic sky and silent sailors in pea jackets pounded on the forehead, dressed in the forehead ... In fact, today"s Kronstadt are not at all, As we imagine it, but much brighter and more diverse. Well, what was Kronstadt at the dawn of his existence during the time of the Sailry Fleet so far from us? What people lived in him and walked along his streets, went to the distant seas from his berths to return back through many months, or even years? Do we know what they lived and how they worked, what we were fond of and what we dreamed about? Alas, the wind of time has long scattered their ashes, without preserving even graves in most cases. However, the reader is given a rare opportunity to touch the old and almost unknown Kronstadt, touch his legends