About the book: 1992 / St. Petersburg is a legendary city, a city where the sense of time is lost, a city in which simultaneously with us, but as if in another dimension, the shadows of our ancestors continue to live. Cannon salvoes are heard - Russian and Swedish regiments are fighting. Axes are clattering and a great city is being built in the swamps. The reigning Romanovs pass by in a line. Solemn music is playing, the sky is colored with fireworks - His Serene Highness Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky is magnificently celebrating the victory over the Turks. We invite you, readers, to touch the history of St. Petersburg. And let for a moment our book make the unreal real, the distant close, the past real.