Cholera. "I'm afraid that everyone will die in St. Petersburg." Sherich D.

Dmitry Sherich is a famous journalist and historian, editor -in -chief of the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti. The author of many times reprinted books on the history of St. Petersburg, such as “Petersburg Day after the Day”, “Nevsky without secrets”, “1924. From Petrograd to Leningrad ”, an essay on the history of“ St. Petersburg Vedomosti ”. Member of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, member of the board of the St. Petersburg Union of local historians. The coronavirus epidemic is not the first epidemic in the history of St. Petersburg. Once upon a time, the northern capital of Russia regularly visited Cholera, the most deadly infectious disease in the 19th century, and its number of victims exceeded tens of thousands. This book is about how Petersburg lived in cholera, why cholera riots arose and why the Bolsheviks turned out to be more successful fighters with deadly infection than tsarist officials.