After reading this book, you will learn many amazing facts from the history of the Northern capital, which have come down to us thanks to a city joke. You will look at the history of St. Petersburg with different eyes, and funny stories about significant events and simple everyday situations from the life of St. Petersburg residents will give you minutes of sincere, cheerful laughter! This book includes historical and biographical information about the city on the Neva and its inhabitants, brightly illustrated with more than seven hundred jokes. It is addressed to the widest range of readers: students, historians, folklorists and everyone who is partial to lively, sparkling folk humor. Second edition, revised and improved.