The book takes us to the 90s of the last century. Dedicated to the St. Petersburg workers embarking on the path of revolutionary struggle. It contains memoirs, diaries and letters of both famous associates and students of V.I. Lenin - V.A. Shelgunov, I.V. Babushkin, V.P. Nogin and others, and little known to a wide circle of readers of revolutionary workers - I.I. Keizer, G.M. Fisher, Ya. A. Andreev, I.K. Mikhailov, A. A. Mitrevich and others. The book tells about the life and life of the proletarian outskirts of St. Petersburg, about their connections with the capital's social democratic underground, about Vespers-Sunday schools for proletarians. The collection is provided with final articles for each section, comments and reference material. Designed for the general reader.