In all centuries, literary life has been in full swing in St. Petersburg - and we, together with the author of the book, writer Valery Popov, find ourselves in the very thick of it. The author, as an eloquent and experienced guide, leads us through the center of St. Petersburg, looking into the windows of the houses where the Krylovs lived , Tyutchev and Gogol, Nekrasov and Saltykov-Shchedrin, Pushkin and Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Akhmatova and Gumilev, Blok, Zoshchenko, Brodsky, Dovlatov, Konetsky, Volodin, Shefner and many more personalities who have become the pride of Russian literature. It seems about these people know everything, but the strong and bright, laconic and succinct style of Valery Popov, the ability to see long-familiar people and a beloved city from a different perspective colors our knowledge in different colors. After reading the book, we will agree with the author: in terms of the number of literary geniuses who inhabited St. Petersburg in different times times, our city has no equal.