Petersburg is a frontier city, young and unprincipled. There is nothing of our own, so we take all the best from everywhere. In the cabinet of a St. Petersburg intellectual, authentic Russian and modern European, high and low, cheap and expensive, were mixed. This is a place of allusions and illusions. In our fog, it is easy to be deceived, mistaking a simple metal rack for a precious setting for an icon, and empty bottles (yes, yes, we are drinking a lot) - for an old stained-glass window. Gold on blue, chamber music and books, books ...