About the book: year / "It is known that after literature, and especially journalism, in the whole world there is nothing worse than St. Petersburg weather. Due to its inconstancy and changeability, there is often no way to distinguish between seasons. This May has turned out to be a particularly confusing month: it is similar to September, and October, and November, and February, and March, and anything else - just not May. <…> As if on purpose, magazines, as if by mutual agreement, are trying to hide the real time of year from us and turn the calendar backwards…»