* We will walk from the Bank to the Lion Bridge along the Griboyedov Canal, repeating its every bend, encountering picturesque corners and unexpected angles. We will see how literature, painting, and theater will intertwine in an amazing tangle with banking, commerce, and the criminal life of St. Petersburg. We have to untangle the tangle, and in this difficult task, griffins will become our assistants. They will lead us along the Griboyedov Canal, telling "The Tale of how lions turned into griffins." What awaits us on the tour? We will learn how to make money wishes on the Bank Bridge. It is with him that the "Tale of how lions turned into griffins" begins. We will learn about the construction of suspension bridges and about the first paper money - banknotes. We will meet with the skeletons Ludwig and Lola and find out the secret they keep. We will hear the story of who and where played "dolls" with the treasury, which bank gave loans in the 19th century, and where the debt prison was located for those who did not pay them on time. And then we will come to the place where printing equipment used to be made, and now there is a creative space with an observation deck on the roof. We will walk along the main shopping square of St. Petersburg, where the "gluttony rows" were located, as well as the Vyazemskaya Lavra, a crime hotspot where even the police were afraid to enter. These places will bring back memories of the works of A. S. Pushkin, N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoevsky and other favorite writers, which we will definitely talk about. And at the same time we will find the house where the fateful meeting of N. V. Gogol and A. S. Pushkin took place. More than one of F. M. Dostoevsky's works took place on the embankments of the Griboyedov Canal. We will see Stolyarny Lane, Kokushkin Bridge, Sonechka Marmeladova's house and many other places described in the novel "Crime and Punishment". From St. Petersburg literary we will get to St. Petersburg theatrical, we will find the Theater of political satire "The Crooked mirror", we will remember graduates of theatrical college., We will see "