Mysterious St. Petersburg, or Ghosts of European Capitals

Saint Petersburg is the city of Saint Peter, the former capital of the Russian Empire, the Northern Venice—home of rain, fog, and endless, mad beauty. Whether it was built on bones or not no longer matters—long ago, the entire Russian classics comes from here. Here every street and every house has its own amazing story. How many secrets are hidden in its majestic palaces, how many legends and myths have heard the waters of the Neva, how many skeletons dust away in old Petersburg cabinets, waiting for their hour. It’s time to open the doors of museum cellars and private hiding places and reveal the most incredible Petersburg secrets—the most mystical stories and the most fantastic plots. It’s time to learn what happened during all these 300 years in Petersburg—the city wrapped in a web of legends and myths.