Misty Stories. The Travels of Captain Alexander

Captain Alexander, along with his overseas assistants — the giants Dole and Zule — returns to his homeland, St. Petersburg. For the enormous sailors, everything here is new: the beautiful city with its even streets and squares, the northern winter,... the splendid palaces of the emperors, the famous Bronze Horseman, the flood, the arrival of the mysterious Italian Count Cagliostro, and the magical properties of the stereoscope — a device for three-dimensional viewing of images. The boy-atlantes tell the most vivid Petersburg legends in an incredibly captivating manner — and a little strangely, since they have their own giant perspective. And the tales become legends precisely because everyone adds something from themselves into them, and notice: everyone tells the pure truth, nothing but the truth... Yes, the legends of the brilliant St. Petersburg are alive to this day. Catherine and Peter I, even if dressed up, walk around Palace Square, while the golden carriage is ready to carry the curious reader on the wings of imagination to the most distant and enticing corners not only of the great city but also of our History.