About the book: 2016 / This book is a guide to Leningrad as it was in 1944-1978, when I walked here with my nanny, went to school , studied at the university, fell in love, got married, wrote stories and tried to get published Sergei Dovlatov, the most popular Russian prose writer of the second half of the 20th century. Three routes will take readers to memorable places, introduce the urban landscape of late Leningrad and the historical context.