St. Petersburg is a legend city, a city where the feeling of time is lost, a city in which the shadows of our ancestors continue to live simultaneously with us, but as if in a different dimension. Cannon volleys are heard - Russian and Swedish regiments are fighting. Axes knock - a great city is being built on the swamps. The reigning Romanovs pass a string. Solemn music sounds, the sky is colored with fireworks, and His Serene Highness Prince Potemkin-Tauride magnificently celebrates the victory over the Turks. Touch Petersburg history. And let this book make the unreal real for a moment, the distant - close, the past - the present.