Moscow Station and Palace Bridge -- Making a home on the Neva -- "The Hermitage and my own front door" -- Initiation into the working class -- Eliseev and Aprashka -- Theatre street -- From Nord to Saigon -- The twenty-seventh kilometre -- Burying the city
Summary
Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities - a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. This book shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg's residents
