Annotation: Petersburg dachas, taverns and small shops, street signs, merchant houses and artists' workshops, sounds and spectacles… This book, written by noted cultural historian and literary critic Albin Konechny, is a collection of writings about everyday life in old Petersburg. It reveals the place that the Neva and White Nights occupied in the life of Petersburgers; the ways in which townspeople spent their leisure time and entertained themselves; the manner by which traders and painters organized their lives; the search for the actual addresses of the heroes of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and more. A special section is devoted to Petersburg scholars of the past: from Faddei Bulgarin, whose essays painted a real panorama of the capital of his day, to the Old Petersburg society, which preserved the city's heritage through the years when memory of such heritage was under threat.