St. Petersburg is inhabited by ghosts, all citizens are sure of this . Ghosts have become an integral part of the city, one of the many attractions. St. Petersburg legends say that every building and street has its own ghost. Most often in the city you can find the ghost of its founder, Peter I .. The ghost of Paul walks through the corridors of the Engineering Castle in search of murderers. Between the ravelins of the Peter and Paul Fortress wander the ghosts of Princess Tarakanova and Tsarevich Alexei . There is a ghost of his own at Anichkov Palace, a university ghost living within the filfak; in Elagin Palace you can meet the ghost of Count Cagliostro, from the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, the ghost of the terrorist Sophia Perovskaya waves a white scarf, and the spirit of Rasputin is often met by the inhabitants of the house on Gorokhova … Ghosts are not dangerous to living people, you can ignore their presence, and you can explore the reasons for their appearance, which is what the St. Petersburg writer Yulia Andreeva did in the proposed book. In ordinary life, we are constantly faced with ghosts, sometimes without even suspecting that we are dealing with the otherworldly. The book will be of interest to everyone who is interested in St. Petersburg secrets and myths that have become the indisputable truths of our culture.