About the book: 2023 / Peter I chose an ominous place in the swamps for this city and banned “stone buildings” throughout Russia. All the stone went to St. Petersburg. And just a few years later, from an ordinary military fortification in the Peter and Paul Fortress, a center of Russian art and culture, science and technology, trade, industry, and charity grew. It also became a city of military glory - the Swedes, the French, and the Germans broke their teeth on it. A city with an amazing history and destiny. It is not without reason that many myths and legends about mystical contacts with the other world are associated with St. Petersburg. These are sometimes unimaginable, unexplainable historical facts about ghosts and prophecies that concern both ordinary people and crowned heads. What is worth, for example, the story of the stay in the capital city of the star trinity of the legendary mystics Cagliostro, Casanova and Saint Germain? And the gloomy rumors about the terrible groans of five hanged Decembrists, which are heard in the morning in the foggy haze near the crownwork? Or the memories of A.S. Pushkin, to whom a fortune teller who traded on Nevsky predicted a quick and unnatural death... All this can be trusted. And you can only smile ironically. But the secrets and myths of the great city of Petra will remain with him forever, passed on from generation to generation.