Невский лёд

by И. А. Минюшина

Various subjects related to the history of St. Petersburg: city holidays, ceremonies, folk festivals, the development of urban transport, the formation of winter sports, the development of circumpolar territories. All this is told by the pictorial and material monuments presented in the album in the mid-18th - the second half of the 20th century from the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. They are supplemented by the testimonies of contemporaries of the events described: memoirs, travelers, journalists, researchers.