✨ Podpisnye Izdaniya Bookshop

Литейный пр., 57

Liteyny's legendary bookshop (open since 1926): a big hall of serious fiction, poetry and Petersburg editions, with the Podpisnye Bulochki bakery in the same building.

At first the shop worked by subscription: before the war its card index held 200,000 subscribers.
The shop never closed during the Siege, even though the buildings it occupied were bombed twice.
Podpisnye moved to the New Passage at Liteyny 57 in 1958.
In the 1970s–1980s people queued from the night before to subscribe to Dumas, Dostoevsky and Jules Verne.
In the 1990s at least 60,000 people signed up here for Tolkien's books.
In 2012 the shop was relaunched by Mikhail Ivanov — grandson of Galina Ermakova, who ran it from 1979.

Part of these routes

Liteyny: Akhmatova, Brodsky and an evening on Nekrasova
Gostiny Dvor, Passage and Fabergé eggs
Liteyny in the rain: books, dinner and cocktails