Stories and legends of old St. Petersburg

This book contains the essays of Anatoly Ivanov, dedicated to Russian history, starting from the founding of St. Petersburg. An amazing variety awaits its pages on its pages: walks along the old and modern streets of the Celebration, acquaintance with the life and customs of the 17th - early 20th centuries, including the eyes of foreigners, the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of past days. Meetings with remarkable personalities - vivid representatives of their time, or even at all ahead of him. Ancient entertainment of varying degrees of pleasantness, curious cases and memoirs of memoirists who captured the events and rumors of the past years on paper. Written vividly and vividly, compiled on the basis of historical documents, letters and diaries, stories will tell about a variety of people who left their mark in history - statesmen, diplomats, military leaders, travelers and many others, and about the places where they happened to walk