Санкт-Петербург. Хроника трех столетий

The book was published as a gift to the city of St. Petersburg on the day of its 300th anniversary. From the first pages, the reader is immersed in the atmosphere of St. Petersburg since the founding and the first years of the life of the capital of the Russian Empire. The book introduces many interesting facts about both the public and private life of members of the Imperial House: it tells about the transformations of Peter I, the historical significance of which cannot be exaggerated, and about the love affairs of Empress Catherine II. The reader will meet with prominent citizens of different eras: with the governors of St. Petersburg (from A.D. Menshikov to V.A. Yakovlev); with the founders of Russian science (from M.V. Lomonosov to Zh.I. Alferov); get in touch with the geniuses of poets and writers (from A.S. Pushkin to I.A. Brodsky); learns about the architects who created the unique architectural image of St. Petersburg, as well as about many other personalities who left a bright mark on the three-hundred-year history of the city. Three hundred years of the history of the great city are generously and variously illustrated with photographs, engravings and reproductions of paintings.