What could be more banal than the words “all ages are submissive to love”? Nevertheless, this is exactly what the book is about. Without acting in any way as a judge, without giving any moral and moral assessments, the author introduces readers to the heartfelt events of past centuries. Those that, due to various circumstances, turned out to be known to the general public, were reflected on the pages of the press, books, memoirs... What episodes are collected in the book? Variety. Love triangles and family dramas, shocking amorous adventures, unrequited feelings, runaway brides, secret weddings, fatal widows and husbands, duels to defend the honor of the beloved, all sorts of unwanted incidents... In the 19th – early 20th centuries, the Northern capital experienced a real revelry of “erotic passions” . In comparison with this, everything seemed to recede into the background - the bloody whirlwinds of the first revolution, cholera epidemics, social scandals, and political intrigues... This book is an attempt to bring together love stories, one way or another connected with the city on the Neva... Here and high-society stories, and the intricacies of the destinies of the reigning house of Romanov, and stories from the life of “merry Petersburg.”