The lecture will explore stories about the Nevsky Gate, the first monument to Lenin, the Palevsky residential area, the Cheerful settlement, and early St. Petersburg football. The meeting will discuss the Nevsky District and the Nevsky Gate - an area around which many persistent myths have developed. Participants will investigate whether it has always been part of the city, where the documentary history ends and the convenient urban legend begins. The conversation will touch on the first monument to Lenin in Leningrad, the "Nevsky Gate" museum, the Shelgunov house, the Palevsky residential area, and the version about the captured Germans who participated in its construction. The speaker is Irina Gribanova, a research associate at the "Nevsky Gate" museum. Where to go in St. Petersburg, we tell on our website.