From the time of foundation Petersburg pretends that it is already built. Some architects believe it, others - don't. Evgeny Gerasimov relies on quality, and not quantity: he doesn't care much about petit and grand bourgeois city from the beginning of the century before last, so beloved by its inhabitants. Constrained by tightly built-up space, Gerasimov moves in time freely, not to retell something that has already been said, butto finish the unexpressed. In fact while designing a house or a bank he, like others, designs the city. However there is a principal difference: induction does not put pressure, general does not descend to particular, gathering on its way errors, not visible from a bird's eye view. On the contrary, self-sufficiency of each building comes up to the level of town-planning...