Voices from the Windows. St. Petersburg. Stories of Outstanding People and the Houses They Lived In

«Voices from the Windows: St. Petersburg. Stories of Outstanding People and the Houses They Lived In» — an exemplary book about St. Petersburg, where the memory of others comes alive and is perceived as a personal experience.

Now in a convenient... format — a reissue of two books under one cover: «Voices from the Windows. St. Petersburg Houses as Witnesses of Fates» and «Through the Looking Glass of St. Petersburg. A Journey into History» and more!

From the very first pages, you become a witness to secret events that took place within the walls of St. Petersburg's houses — intimate episodes from the lives of outstanding personalities. However, you are not a mere observer — now you are a guest in each of these houses.

- Ascend the black staircase of the house on Malaya Morskaya to visit Gogol, as Pushkin once did.
- Admire the view of Nevsky Prospect from the windows of the house where Tchaikovsky lived and gossiped with his best friend — patroness Nadezhda von Meck.
- Stroll through the alleys of the garden of the Fountain House with Anna Akhmatova, where the poetess wrote «Requiem».

Explore the touching retellings of these and other scenes from the life of St. Petersburg society in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries penned by Ekaterina Kubrykova, a writer and diploma winner of the Antsiferov Prize (for her contribution to modern St. Petersburg regional studies).

Read it alongside the book «Voices from the Windows: Revived Stories of St. Petersburg Houses» — and you will surely not miss the cultural heritage of the Northern capital!