St. Petersburg’s Storeys. Mayakovsky Library
BOOK STOREY. HISTORY OF THE CITY’S FIRST LIBRARY
How did a love story lead to the founding of the library on Fontanka Embankment? What can be seen through the telescope from the Okhta-8 dept.? Is the library haunted? All this and more, in the new episode of the “St. Petersburg’s Storeys. City is Growing Up” project.
Journalist Andrey Smirnov will introduce you to two dept. heads and to the cat librarians, Frosya and Musya.
You’ll learn about the fun activities on offer at the Mayakovsky Library: you can get in touch with history by flipping through rare books, read contemporary fiction, listen to music, and even play a passage from the opera Sadko on a synthesizer using old sheet music.
Enjoy!
00:00 Our walk begins
01:10 Library on Fontanka: a love story between a lady-in-waiting and a duke
03:13 Book for rent
03:51 Prince Golitsyn’s library
05:07 Musya the cat: category II librarian and Gothic enthusiast
05:37 A creepy-cute ghost
06:14 Church library
07:08 St. Petersburg’s vinyl experts
09:40 A cosmic book storage and more
12:04 Frosya the cat: librarian and TikToker
