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About the product The book «Stories of St. Petersburg Houses Told by Their Residents» contains stories about twenty-five St. Petersburg houses built in the 19th-20th centuries. This is a real book-museum that allows you to see the cultural capital without leaving your home. This magnificent edition with a colorful cover will be an excellent gift for anyone interested in urban architecture, local history and history, as well as for everyone who is sincerely in love with St. Petersburg. You will read the stories of residents about different St. Petersburg buildings, learn the details of their appearance, see many stunning photographs and touch the city from a completely different side. Abstract St. Petersburg is more than a city. The book you hold in your hands is more than just the history of houses. These are whole lives, epochs, memories. This is a book about everyday life in not the most famous, but certainly interesting houses of St. Petersburg and Leningrad: from the tenement house of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra to the constructivist housing estate on Traktornaya Street. Twenty-five houses of St. Petersburg and the people whose names are associated with these houses are the heroes of this book. Through the fate of residents and architects, facades and interiors, we tell the history of the city as a whole: tragic, happy, important, curious — different. This book is the result of the collaboration of three inspired people. Julia Galkina is the editor of «The Village. Petersburg», Maxim Kosmin is the author of the popular blog on Instagram, nominated for the «TOP 50. Most Famous People of St. Petersburg» award. And also a photographer — Anton Akimov, who shoots on film and conveys the unique atmosphere of the time. Together they walked through their hometown, collecting memories of residents, old photographs and archival documents, explored attics, balconies and front doors. …
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