Oh St. Petersburg, incredible and magnetic! Here, more than anywhere else, you can see your own slowly riding among the romantic rooftops, if you soar above the city with an enchanted soul. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol also soared - and then descended back, took up his pen and began to paint its inhabitants. The master of words turned out to be exactly “live” - as if you could touch them and even talk to them. Of course, if you are not frightened by their oddities (a runaway nose, for example...). Just yesterday you would not have paid any attention to these people, but now you will never forget. And you will definitely recognize them when you meet them... The book includes the famous “Petersburg Tales”, as well as excerpts and sketches from Gogol’s unfinished works of the same period.