Petersburg: Seconds of History is a book-album based on photographs of the famous Karl Bulla and his contemporaries. In the essays accompanying the photographs, the author does not show the ceremonial Petersburg with its palaces, cathedrals, European architecture, but Petersburg in its everyday, everyday, sometimes festive life, and does it with chronicling accuracy and detail. The presented photographs captured the multifaceted life of the capital of the XIX - early XX centuries. The book contains many interesting and unknown to the general reader facts about the "small history" of our city. This book is for those who are passionate about the history of St. Petersburg.