In 1914, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of M.Yu. Lermontov, the avenue, which stretched from the Fontanka River to the Obvodny Canal, was named in his honor. By the beginning of the 20th century, the architectural appearance of the avenue was basically already formed. The book gives a broad historical overview of the changing appearance of those streets and adjacent territories that are included in the current Lermontovsky Prospekt. The authors attracted a large archival and bibliographic material about the inhabitants of the avenue: merchants, actors of the Imperial Theaters, ministers of worship, teachers of the Nikolaev Cavalry School, which later housed the first Lermontov Museum in Russia.