Sunset of brilliant St. Petersburg. Life and customs of the northern capital of the Silver Age

A selection of various publications and other sources of the beginning of the previous century has been commented in detail and allows you to present the Northern capital at an unexpected and unusual perspective, learn about the life and morals of that time, to find out how the townspeople lived, to see the multifaceted of the existence of a big city, where the luxury was adjacent to ugly poverty. What did the Petersburgers think and dream about? What dreams, plans and hopes made? What secret fatal passions were overwhelmed by them? What idols were worshiped and who were incredibly condemned, overthrow from the pods? What, finally, was the city at the time, about which it is customary to talk about today with a breath?
After reading the book, you will learn a lot of interesting things and you can draw amazing parallels between the mores of that era and our time