The dress of the white nights. Petersburg in Russian poetry

Petersburg — Petrograd — Leningrad — Saint Petersburg! A multifaceted city, "magnificently, proudly" risen above the Neva "from the darkness of forests, from the swamps of marshes", still enchants and leaves no one indifferent. Poetry breathed life into the stony beauty of the northern capital and captured it in words: the bronze monument to Peter became the Bronze Horseman, the spire of the Admiralty — the Admiralty Needle, the bright ones, shrouded in a gentle haze of night, — the Whites. Together with Russian poets, uncover the dark secrets of Petersburg's past, read the poetic chronicle created over nearly three hundred years, and look at the modern city with loving eyes.