* Petersburg is a very cat—loving city. The most famous cats live in the Hermitage and are among the world's top 10 informal attractions. Shaggy employees "work" in many other cultural and art institutions. We will talk about the famous St. Petersburg street and museum cats, fuzzies during the years of the blockade and about the attitude towards purring in churches of different faiths. We'll see: The Winter Palace, where the most famous cats of St. Petersburg, affectionately called Ermiki, live in the basements. You will see a unique road sign "Beware of cats!" and possibly one of those cats. The State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, where Angelina the cat lives An open perfume laboratory and its keeper, Joseph the cat The famous cats and cats of Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street are Pysha, Chess the chess cat, and Yakov Moiseevich Fishman, the purrer of the Variety Theater's repertoire rental department. Petrikirche, where you will find out who of the famous Lutherans appreciated and protected cats Malaya Konyushennaya Street and the monument to Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, who did not like cats. Kazan Cathedral, where we will discuss how cats are treated in Orthodox churches The Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria, where we will talk about cats in European culture and the first defender of the rights of black cats, Cardinal Richelieu Cats and cats of Gostiny Dvor are effective sales managers of the Silver Age era. You will understand how cats helped in trading. Public Library on Sadovaya Street. Let's recall cats in world literature. Malaya Sadovaya Street and its inhabitants Yelisey and Vasilisa. You will hear blockade stories about cats — sad and funny. Liteyny Prospekt with famous St. Petersburg cats and famous cat lovers Lions are big cats. Let's count the mascaron lion faces and find out why there are so many lions in St. Petersburg.