A Solar Wind Is Expected on the Fontanka

All roads lead to… St. Petersburg. That’s exactly where, in the city of white nights and eternal rains, in the trendy coffee shop "Ekipazh" on the Fontanka, one day an unlikely—at first glance—company gathers: the quirky barista Lesha, Theona, a Georgian girl, Maria, a tour guide, the well-known photographer Danila, and a mysterious stranger who hides a pistol in her bag.

Soon it turns out that these different people are united not only by their love of good coffee, but also by a long and tangled history stretching across time. In an old St. Petersburg apartment full of strange sounds and mystical dreams, Theona and Lesha find a hidden stash—shadows of the past are somehow in a hurry to tell them what happened here more than a hundred years ago.

"A Sunny Wind is Expected on the Fontanka" is the first book in the author’s two-part cycle "Petersburg Novel"— a gallery of stories expanded through time.

Pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, red Petrograd, blockaded Leningrad, our days. A strange circle of fate connecting contemporaries and descendants, an intertwining of reality and mysticism, lyrical and tragic. The path from first romantic love to the last—eternal. A coming-of-age novel and a search for truth, where the central character becomes Time— the wind of change that brings not only bitter partings, but also meetings that, even after many long years and many kilometers of roads, inevitably happen to those who know how to wait.