As you know, Fyodor Dostoevsky called St. Petersburg the most fantastic city on earth. And many other writers, perhaps, did nothing but write about the fatal “secrets of St. Petersburg” and its mysteries. But even more surprising in its history was the fact that in this city, under the gloomy northern sky, the concentration of literary geniuses was especially great. This is Pushkin, and Gogol, and Griboyedov, and Dostoevsky, and Blok, and Leskov, and Mandelstam, and Anna Akhmatova, and many others. Almost all the writers and poets of the “golden” and “silver” centuries of Russian literature lived and worked here. Why did this happen? People are still speculating about this. St. Petersburg is the northernmost of all megacities on the planet. But it’s probably not a matter of climate, but of a special stimulating environment created by close communication between geniuses, the possibility of free discussions, common interests, and the exchange of talents, which is what happened in St. Petersburg. But if this is the whole point, then why are they not visible in this city now? This means, rather, it is connected with a certain secret, the secret history of St. Petersburg, which they have been trying to unravel for more than 300 years and cannot in any way. The author of this book is not trying to unravel the secret of St. Petersburg, he simply talks about the biographies of the geniuses of Russian literature who lived in the northern capital. But in the lives of many of them there are also many secrets and mysteries, just like the city itself. In St. Petersburg-Leningrad, poets and writers not only created their masterpieces, dreamed and soared in spirit, but also suffered, suffered and died. St. Petersburg is not only a city of literary geniuses, it is also a city of numerous life dramas, broken destinies, incredible biographies, many literary secrets and mysteries. This book tells about all this, about the extraordinary destinies of writers and poets of St. Petersburg. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.