Legendary Bridges. Stories and Legends of St. Petersburg Bridges. Pocket Format

Now in pocket format!

St. Petersburg is a city of white nights, luxurious mansions, numerous rivers and canals, and of course, various bridges. According to official data, there are 443 bridges in the city on the Neva, and St. Petersburg ranks... fifth in the world in this regard, surpassing only Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Venice.

The author of this book, accredited guide of the 1st category Lilia Sergeeva, will tell you about the most famous, noteworthy, and interesting bridges of the northern capital. While viewing panoramic photographs and archival illustrations, you will take a “walk” along the banks of the Moyka and Fontanka rivers, cross the Lebyazhya Canal, marvel at the beauty of the Griboedov Canal, and of course, examine the bridges on the Great Neva, approaching the very borders of the Gulf of Finland.

• What were the first bridges of St. Petersburg like and who built them?
• Why do the lions on the Bank Bridge not have manes?
• What is the real reason for the St. Petersburg floods?
• How are the bridges connected to the “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt”?
• Where is the “ghost bridge” located?

Tracing the history of the creation of bridges in St. Petersburg — Petrograd — Leningrad, we seem to read a fairy tale about how, from ordinary wooden crossings, the bridges gradually turned into the main decoration of the city. Regardless of what material they were built from — stone, cast iron, reinforced concrete, steel, aluminum — they became an integral part of the views of St. Petersburg. Walk across these bridges and embankments — perhaps in their reflections in the water, you will see and hear new stories and legends that have been revealed only to you. Examine the bridges from the water on pleasure boats, feel their unbreakable connection with the city, its mysteries and secrets. Open this book and immerse yourself in the living history of St. Petersburg.