About the book: 2020 / In 1887, a psychiatric hospital was opened on Devichye Pole. The best domestic psychiatrists worked here at one time: S.S. Korsakov, V.P. Serbsky, etc. A few years later, the clinic was headed by P.B. Gannushkin, who was the first to begin collecting and systematizing the stories of his patients. Sad, tragic, and sometimes funny stories of the lives and illnesses of the clinic’s patients form the basis of this book..