The publishing house presents a series of books by the famous local historian and remarkable connoisseur of St. Petersburg Pyotr Stolpyansky. In them, we carefully preserved the author's edition, without violating the unique style of the original. The volume will be collected, which includes the following historical and artistic essays: the House of Princess Shakhovskaya, the Palace of Labor, the Peter and Paul Fortress. The author gives an unusually complete picture of the growth and development of the city, vividly illustrates it with lively and fascinating descriptions of historical realities, subtly analyzing the reasons that gave rise to them... Stolpyansky's books are immersed in the historical cultural environment, give the effect of reconstructing the historical and cultural situation and evoke an acute sense of ownership. Before you is the second part of an extensive study, in which not a dead series of long-past events and people will appear, but their living embodiment in the historical space of St. Petersburg.