Peter I chose an ominous place in the swamps for this city and banned the "stone structure" throughout Russia. The whole stone went to St. Petersburg. And after just a few years, the center of Russian art and culture, science and technology, trade, industry, and charity grew out of the usual military fortification in the Peter and Paul Fortress. He also became a city of military glory - the Swedes, the French, and the Germans broke their teeth about him. A city with an amazing history and destiny. It is not without reason that many myths and legends about mystical contacts with the other world are connected with St. Petersburg. These are sometimes unimaginable, inexplicable historical facts about ghosts and prophecies, which concern both ordinary people and crowned persons. What is, for example, the story of the stay in the city of the star trinity of the legendary mystics Cagliostro, Casanova and Saint-Germain? And gloomy rumors about the terrible groans of five hanged Decembrists, which are heard in the morning in foggy haze near the crown? Or the memories of A.S. Pushkin, whom the fortuneteller, who trades on Nevsky, predicted an early and unnatural death... All this can be trusted. And you can only grin ironically. But the secrets and myths of the great city of Peter will remain with him forever, passed down from generation to generation.