On Nevsky Prospekt, many houses are in one way or another connected with literature. The author managed to experience a lot of the literary life of St. Petersburg, sometimes participated in this life very actively, and if he didn’t meet anyone, he knew and loved in absentia, so he has something to tell about. You will learn first-hand about the life of the main city avenue from the time fifties of the last century to the present day, you will meet on the pages of the book with personalities who made up the color of Russian literature: Krylov, Delvig, Odoevsky, Tyutchev and Gogol, Pushkin and Lermontov, Nabokov, Gumilev, Zoshchenko, Dovlatov, Brodsky, Bitov. The life of each of them was connected with Nevsky Prospekt, and Valery Popov enthusiastically talks about the literary portrait of the city, compiled from the faces of its famous inhabitants.