Online tours at Zoom in St. Petersburg in the style of a mystical noir

A new format has appeared on the Sputnik8.com travel portal - an online tour. You can travel the world without leaving home. Tours take place in real time through online translation services. Below is a story about one of the most popular excursions in St. Petersburg.

Tour guide Dmitry is a native of the city, fascinated by his story from school. An engineer by training, a graduate of the local University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, he, like no one else, knows how many mysterious, scary stories are remembered by the back streets and courtyards of St. Petersburg.

Listeners will be transferred to the streets of the Northern capital, on which Dmitry will be with a smartphone at this time. You shouldn’t be late for the start of your pre-planned online excursion . This is not a record, which means the guide will start moving along the route at the time indicated by the program. The tour consists of 3 blocks of 30 minutes.

During the tour (in real time) and after each block you can ask questions. And there will be questions. Indeed, if the legends about the Queen of Spades or the revived Bronze Horseman have already become the property of folklore and literature, then the terrible places through which the tour will take place have long been forgotten or have never been known.

Block 1: Abandoned houses and those who live in them

What ghosts lurk in the mine of the sinister eight-story building, in which on a summer day frost on the skin. When and where did the first crematorium of Russia appear. Dmitry will not only tell, but also show how some events could have happened. He will walk next to the abandoned houses of the era of the great Domenico Trezzini. He will tell about the secrets of the descendants of the architect who suddenly ceased to serve the Russian Empire and the true motives of this act. Listeners will learn about what happens to lovers walking around the “abandoned houses” and what dangers lurk in them. Why do houses with history in the 3rd century die in oblivion and why in the center of the metropolis of the 21st century there are places where the rats dominate.

Block 2: Fear Your Desires

Urban legends associated with people who tried to solve their problems by contacting otherworldly forces, but forgot to read the "small print" are not as scary as the "hell" in which ordinary people survived. What is hidden behind the mysticism of houses with an ominous reputation. The true causes of terrible tragedies. Ordinary things instead of ancient evil. Real stories instead of literary gloss.

Block 3: Entertainment and Memory

What entertained the prone to mysticism and conducting the sinister rituals of the Bohemian Silver Age. How contemporaries treated such entertainments. What they remained in textbooks, and what - in folk memory. Places deleted from history. Stories that you want to quickly forget.

The tour is held on the Petrograd side and Vasilievsky island with a call to the well-yards. Limited number of seats. Everyone who booked a place through the site will receive a notification about the date and time of the start of the "online" and a link to it in Zoom.