Giant 19th Сentury Сities Without a Single Person! People were settled in the 1880s

Nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, the entrance to St. Isaac's Cathedral. A cold city, the morning fog dissipates as the sun rises, and our shoes are drowning in mud.

It is 1860. St. Petersburg is majestic and proud, but its inhabitants are nowhere to be seen. There is silence all around - too quiet.

According to official data, in 1860s about 500 thousand people lived in St. Petersburg, but in old photos the city is empty. Where did they all disappear to?

The long shadow of the Alexander Column tells us the time of day - the sun gives such shadows in the morning and evening. Apparently, it is morning now, but the streets are still deserted.