Petersburg inside out. Notes on the fields of city chronicles. Sherich Dmitry Yuryevich

The history of St. Petersburg is covered with myths and legends. Some of them have long been wandering in literature under the guise of reliable facts. When and in whose honor our city got its name? Who and when built the house of Peter I? Has the Mozhaisky aircraft flew? Is it true that Sergey Yesenin was killed? How many days and nights did the blockade of Leningrad last? How many islands stands Petersburg? For each of these questions there is an abode and familiar answer, which included in the encyclopedia and school textbooks. But this answer is not always true. In this book, the famous journalist and historian of the city, the laureate of the Antsiferovsky Prize Dmitry Sheri, subjects St. Petersburg myths to critical analysis, and some simply debunk. And it turns out that the history of St. Petersburg is not quite the way we know it since childhood. And in places not at all like that.