About the book: 2014 / Cholera is still a deadly disease today, but in the Russian capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow, this “Asian guest” did not appear for a very long time now. And once upon a time, her arrival completely changed the rhythm of life of the townspeople, their daily life: they dressed themselves in bellies, tried not to go out on an empty stomach, rubbed themselves with olive oil and took all sorts of other measures so as not to be included in the rapidly growing lists of mourning. Not everyone was lucky: seven St. Petersburg cholera epidemics claimed the lives of seventy thousand citizens; Among the victims of the disease were the great Karl Ivanovich Rossi and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. All this is discussed in the new book of the famous journalist and historian, Antsiferov Prize winner Dmitry Sherikh. The reader will see a string of names of those who died, who survived, and those who fought the epidemics; the book presents the most significant cholera addresses of St. Petersburg, provides numerous testimonies from memoirists.