Vsevolod Krestovsky - Petersburg Slums in 2 volumes. Gift books bound in leather

Brilliant and criminal Petersburg from high society to the slums

During his life Vsevolod Krestovsky wrote many short stories, essays, novellas, novels. This was enough for a collection of works in eight volumes, released after the writer's death. But the fame and success of Krestovsky, of course, brought the novel "Petersburg slums". It was not just read, it was read to them. In modern terms, the novel has become a real bestseller of Russian literature of the second half of the XIX century. Krestovsky's contemporaries were particularly struck and interested in Petersburg — Petersburg of slums: readers even made collective excursions to the places described in the novel: taverns, pawnbrokers' shops, the embankments of the Neva and the Kryukov Canal, etc. Krestovsky managed to organically combine the traditions of everyday prose with an adventurous plot in which the fates of heroes belonging to a variety of social groups intertwined — from the representatives of high society, to beggars and thieves. In a word, the whole of St. Petersburg, brilliant and criminal.