St. Petersburg is the most extraordinary city on Earth. Mysterious and strange, great and beautiful. This is what this book is about. This book is also about something that not many people know: about the secrets of Northern Palmyra. It tells not only about the city, its palaces and monuments, museums and parks - but also about the people, about the great history, many of the most important pages of which are still unknown to us . A book about undeservedly forgotten heroes, about the secret sides of the lives of those who have long been known - and about those St. Petersburg residents who died in exile, but did a lot for the glory of the city on the Neva and for all of Russia. In a word, if you, taking a walk around St. Petersburg, If you want to learn about all these mysteries, about what this great city was like, listen to a fascinating story about it and its famous inhabitants, about its glorious history - the guide is in front of you!