Dismemberingrad. Maniacs over Neva

"A famous historian, an expert on Napoleon, brought a backpack with the hands of his beloved woman to the river." "The wife dismembered her husband's body so that admirers would remember him only for the good..." Due to a series... of bloody and shocking events described in this book, Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad acquired a fourth, "popular," name – Dismemberingrad. Here are nine true stories that happened on the banks of the Neva over the past 80 years. Stories of murderers, maniacs, rapists, and dismemberers that took place in a beautiful and frightening city. Yelizaveta Buta is a criminal psychologist, the author of the book "Fisher the Maniac" and other investigations of real crimes.