“A Book about Petersburg”... It’s dangerous to call your work that way after the novels of Dostoevsky, “Petersburg” by Andrei Bely, artistically inspired walks through post-revolutionary Petrograd by Nikolai Antsiferov... There are as many names, titles and other things as you like, this is Petersburg , a fictitious city, composed by the genius and will of Peter and brought to life on the bones of its nameless builders. Nosov’s book is unique in that its main character is the city itself, our northern capital, with its white nights, the ship on the spire of the Admiralty, rivers and canals, with its myths, its secrets and legends. With this book you can walk around the city, to its strange places that you will not read about in any of the previous guidebooks. From Nosov's book you will learn many city stories, which, we are sure, will be a true discovery for the reader.

The book is illustrated with photographs from the author's personal archive, and this additionally gives it a bright and unique effect.

< p>Writer Nosov is one of the few, if not the only resident of St. Petersburg who had the opportunity to communicate with an angel. This is not fiction, this is a real fact, the meeting took place on Palace Square, at the top of the Alexander Column, where the writer was carried one day on a white St. Petersburg night. Maybe that’s why Nosov sees the city not only through the eyes of a pedestrian who walked its length and breadth, not only through the eyes of an investigator of its past and modern secrets, but also through the eyes of a bird, from that angelic height to which not everyone is destined to rise.