Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad - Petersburg. Built on a swamp, stunningly beautiful and frighteningly ugly, adored and hated, imperial, mystical, sacred, “the cradle of Russian freedom” and “the birthplace of three revolutions”, which changed its name three times, over three centuries of its history has seen and experienced so much that it would be enough for three millennia... The most European, mysterious and phenomenal city in Russia. Why did the communists dislike it so much, depriving the “city of Petrov” of its name and capital status? Why was Hitler going to wipe him off the face of the earth? Is it true that he is “built on bones” and “cursed from birth”? And will the old prophecy come true that “THIS PLACE WILL BE EMPTY”?