The author came to St. Petersburg from Germany in 1993, founded the newspaper “Hello, Petersburg!” and, fascinated by Russian life in those turbulent years, began to write this book. It was published in German in 1995, was awarded several literary awards and aroused great interest in different countries. It contains “normal” life: new buildings, bedlam, morals, a way of life that is not always understandable for a European, cordiality and cordiality. Sharply seen, heartfelt and interestingly written. In Russian - for the first time, this is the ninth language in which the book has been published. Starting all sorts of games on the 33 narrative platforms of his book, Ingo Schulze embarks on a free float of improvisation, deftly combining fiction and details of our painfully familiar life, myths of consciousness, literary quotes, openly imitates, and sometimes deliberately falsifies Russian literature from Pushkin to Andrei Bely and from Kharms to V. Sorokin, risking the anger and irritation of the closed-minded reader and inviting the open and cheerful reader to the game of recognition and co-thinking.