In St. Petersburg, there isn’t a single house or monument whose history isn’t entangled in a web of secrets. What you can hear here is anything: that in deep antiquity, in the place where St. Petersburg stands now, there existed a mysterious city—an offshoot of an unknown civilization; that the Alexandrinsky Column is one of the ancient artifacts, because carving and filigree-processing such a massive single stone is simply impossible; and that if you go into the basement of a house with a rotunda, you come out as a deep old man…
Let’s try to peek behind the scenes of metropolitan life to understand just how mysterious and incomprehensible the history of this mystical city is.