The sixth book of prose “The Green Monkey” by Natalia Galkina, the author of thirteen poetry collections, includes two novels (“The Green Monkey” and “Tabernacle”), as well as a “storytelling” “Museum of the City of Myshkin”. In the polyphony of “stories” one can hear notes of comedy, tragedy, lyricism, realistic play, farce, and theater of the absurd. The heroes of “The Green Monkey,” true readers, our contemporaries living a poor and unsettled life, call St. Petersburg “a book with a place for dates.” In this meeting place, which cannot be changed, characters from different times and different countries converge. Disabled children from “Tabernacle” discover a centuries-old world of culture, a magical circle of imagination, a descendant of the Crusaders who actually lived on its bank, on Srednaya Meshchanskaya, looks into the dark water of the Catherine Canal, and the alleys, front gardens, Teriok dachas, Ingrian snows are not just the scenery of history the love of Nikolai Gumilyov and Olga Vysotskaya or the French secret diplomat and the girl from the museum portrait who enchanted him, but the reserved space of the “secret city”, uniting everyone who stepped on its pavements. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.