Six new books about St. Petersburg. Stained glass, necropolis and mysterious stories

This spring, several books will appear or are about to appear in stores to help lovers to explore the city and the surroundings. Mysticism and folklore are now popular in local history. “Paper” collected six documentary and art books of the end of 2024 - the beginning of 2025 on the local history of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

"City of Oberiuts"

Valery Shubinsky

Griff, 2024

The book of the poet and translator Valery Shubinsky is a walk along Leningrad through the eyes of Daniil Harms, Alexander Vvedensky and their friends. The author revives the atmosphere of the absurd-both in creativity and in social processes-the 1920–30s. Through addresses, memories and rare photos, the publication shows how the city formed famous avant -garde players and how they influenced it.

"Stained-glass windows of St. Petersburg: Inventory 2019–2024. Central District "

Tatyana Knyazhitskaya

Keller, 2024

"Stained-glass windows of St. Petersburg" is part of the long-standing volunteer project "Stained-ups in Russia" . And if previous publications talked about unique finds in Vasileostrovsky, Petrograd and Admiralteysky districts, then the new is concentrated in the city center. 185 addresses of buildings with pre -revolutionary models collected in six years by enthusiasts led by Tatyana Knyazhitskaya in a large beautiful publication with archival and modern photographs.

"Damned Petersburg"

“Everyone is free”, 2025

The publishing house of the independent book “Everyone is free” gathered under one cover the stories of underground musicians Lehi Nikonov, Konstantin Speransky and Maxim Tesley, famous writers and writers Alexei Polyarinov, Anton Sexova, Anna Kozlova and Alla Gorbunova, as well as the debutant in the literature Nurgul Nursagatov. All of them about the Gothic, gloomy, Gogolevsky St. Petersburg, a kind of "metabart" of the dark side of the city. Among the plots are temporary loops, the local end of the world, a meeting with the dead poets in the bars of Nekrasov Street.

“Baba Nyura. Liebizhore "

Rustam Razuvanov

AST, 2025

Around the mysterious stories about the so -called libigore for more than ten years, a community called "Baba Nyura" has existed . It was created by an ethnographer amateur Rustam Razuvanov, who travels on expeditions to remote corners of the Leningrad region and collects the bypasses -the stories of people about a meeting with the otherworldly. Last year, his documentary book “Mystical Folklore” was published , which collects conversations with the residents of the Tikhvinsky district. In the new one, he artistically comprehends his field research through the plot about the Soviet teenager Roman, which goes to the village in search of a grandmother who has missed in the forest.

“Necropolitan Petersburg. Adam's heads, cholera cemeteries and thunder-stone "

Margarita Nikolaev

"Myth", expected in the spring 2025

Margarita Nikolaeva, creator of the educational project Whatscemetry , not only studies Petersburg cemeteries, but also as a volunteer washes ancient tombstones in Smolensk or finds lost monuments in the city and transports them to Mitrofanievskoye. In her first book, the researcher tells where in St. Petersburg to find burials of the pre -Petrine period, how the copper rider is associated with cemeteries and why the idea of ​​building a crematorium appeared in pre -revolutionary Russia. While its exit is transferred , you can attend Margarita lectures.

“Behind the facade. The second part. Another 30 letters about the history of St. Petersburg houses "

Elya Novopashenny, Alexey Shishkin

Eksmo/Paper, 2025

The continuation of the project, which appeared from the newsletter of “Paper” about the history of St. Petersburg houses and their inhabitants. This time, readers are waiting for 30 letters. Elya Novopashenna claims that the publication turned out to be somewhat more dramatic than the first book, and Alexei Shishkin calls him a book about St. Petersburg diversity - how women and men, Japanese and Germans, rich and poor, engineers and bohemia, who left and remained, and even animals live. As in the first issue, detailed stories are accompanied by many photographs and illustrations.

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• What can be seen at the Harms exhibition in Kgallery ? The Dutch shepherd Velipag, posthumous rehabilitation of the Oberiut and landscape of the new Holland of 1940.
• Mysticism of Veterans Avenue. We discuss the popular Gothic image of the city with the authors of the collection "Damned Petersburg."