Petersburg secrets. Entertaining historical guide. Malyshev V.

Petersburg is the most unusual city on Earth. The geniuses of Russian literature, as one, depicted him complete secrets and riddles. And at the same time, everyone today admits: there is no other such beautiful city anywhere in the world. In any lane, that neither the house, then - the palace. Whatever the palace is a museum. Whatever the monument is a masterpiece. And it was here that the Greatest Literature, Painting, Music, the proud and powerful emperors, who were carelessly responding to quoted foreigners, ruled the vigles: “When the Russian king produces fish, Europe could wait!”

The great inventors and scientists brought their designs here. Lomonosov and Mendeleev, Pavlov and Sechenov, Sikorsky and Zvorykin, Yablchkov and Kotelniki. Here brave generals trained their regiments, beating the Swedes, Napoleon, Turkish sultans, Hitler and other arrogant conquerors. We lived here and from here the glorious admirals went into combat campaigns: Nakhimov, Kornilov and Ushakov. From here Kruzenshtern, Semenov Tian-Shan and Przhevalsky went on long journeys.

This is his inhabitants surviving an unprecedented siege in world history. Nowhere and has never been such a massive heroism of the people. The foot of a foreign invader never stepped on the proud bridge Petersburg.

Why? Why did it be connected in it that it is impossible to connect and explain in any way? Yes, mysterious and strange, but a great and beautiful city. It is about him, the reader, this book. This book is about the secrets and riddles of the city on the Neva. The book is not only about St. Petersburg, about its palaces, museums and monuments, but also about its people, about our great history, many pages of which are still little known to many.