N. A. Sindalovsky's new book is a series of thematic essays that create a unique panorama of the city life of old and new St. Petersburg. The heroes of the b...

Folklore, unlike official historiography, is not subject to “ideological orders”. It exists freely according to its own mysterious laws, selectively consolid...

The book by the famous writer and collector of St. Petersburg folklore N. A. Sindalovsky is a revised and significantly expanded reissue of his “History of S...

Before you is the history of St. Petersburg as reflected in urban folklore. The story is in some sense “parallel” to the official one. Of course, the emphasi...

From 1703 to the present, more than 10 thousand toponyms have appeared in the city on the Neva. Some of them were destined for a life limited in time. some, ...

Unlike official historiography, folklore does not claim to be the ultimate truth. He does not insist on anything, does not call for anything and does not con...

The new book by Naum Sindalovsky tells about more than eighty gardens and kindergartens, parks and squares, boulevards and alleys of the Northern capital and...

The new book by Naum Sindalovsky contains proverbs, sayings, puns, whose appearance is associated with St. Petersburg. Some of them go back to the first year...

A new work by the famous writer and expert on St. Petersburg urban folklore N.A. Sindalovsky is dedicated to the history of the main thoroughfare of St. Pete...

The new book by N. A. Sindalovsky is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October events of 1917 and the study of the preceding 100-year period of riots...

From 1703 to the present, more than 10 thousand toponyms have appeared in the city on the Neva. Some of them were destined for a life limited in time; some, ...

Nahum Sindalovsky's new book continues his research into St. Petersburg folklore. However, before proceeding to the folklore itself with a Finnish-Swedish ac...