The illustrated book about the life of the Swedes in St. Petersburg is a rich collection of valuable historical evidence, painstakingly collected by Bengt Youngfeldt, associate professor of the Department of Slavic Studies at Stockholm University. A smart, fascinating and sometimes very sad story about the life of the Swedish colony is replete with bright names: Alfred Nobel, Selma Lagerlöf, Sven Hedin, Lars Magnus Eriksson... - their lives appear before us in a new light. Youngfeldt's book puts a lot of things into place after almost a century of oblivion of the Swedes' contribution to the construction of the imperial capital. The publication is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the history of relations between Russia and Sweden.