Inside-out History of Petersburg. Notes on the margins of city chronicles

The will of the Enthusiasts - Dreamers, and sometimes on the order of the bunching persons, beautiful legends were born, able to decorate the chronicle of any European capital ... There was no one to take into account the city on the Neva. His story is literally wiped with different kinds of intent and nonfire. Many of these fantasies have already entered the flesh and the blood of the history of St. Petersburg - and the author does not expect that his book will radically change the situation. Who wants to believe in beautiful and fateful - he will believe in the future. Yes, and the creators of many modern essays about the St. Petersburg Starne are too neglecting a critical look at things, often forgetting an unforeseen look at the past and the present. Such is the reality. However, the author does not intend to be sad on this occasion. Why?