St. Petersburg, the “city of wandering souls,” palaces and new buildings, people known and unknown, appear here as the best St. Petersburg photographers of the 70s saw them.
The seventies are already history. And if memory sometimes deceives us, then photography is an art that, by definition, is incapable of lying.
A separate notebook in the album includes works by Boris Smelov, a master who has rightfully taken his place among the classics of modern photography. "Optimism of Memory. Leningrad of the 70s" opens a series of photo albums dedicated to St. Petersburg and dedicated to its three hundredth anniversary.