About the book: 2023 / Have you ever thought, while walking the usual route from work to home, visiting a bank or clinic, that somewhere here, in a parallel Petersburg reality, another life is passing - the stories of people who loved, suffered, felt within these very walls? Have you looked through the same windows and seen the same view? The steps you climb hear the sound of Akhmatova’s worn-out heels. Pushkin sits at your table in a cafe before a duel, and Rasputin, running away from his killers, stumbles over the same stone that you stumbled over now... This is the second book by Ekaterina Kubryakova, a book about houses as witnesses of destinies, about the looking glass in which at this very thousands of stories are happening right now in the place where you are standing now.