SPb. ; Squirrel, 2012 - 68 s. ISBN 978-5-905829-01-7 . This small booklet is the result of more than thirty years of journalistic work and historical search activities. This is a tribute to the favorite science - history, as well as the favorite hero of the era of Peter the Great, who became the founder and symbol of his native city of Togliatti, Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev .. This is a written testimony of gratitude and gratitude to my first teachers of life - the local historian, Honorary Citizen of the city of Togliatti Alexander Mikhailovich . Turaev and Anatoly Emmanuelovich Livshits, Professor of History of Togliatti University . This is the memory of the first mayor of Togliatti Sergey Fedorovich Zhilkin, who did much to perpetuate the memory of Tatishchev.