Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Die Elektrische Centrale in St. Petersburg
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
Although, after years of change and decline, St. Petersburg's historic centre once more emanates metropolitan splendour in the run-up of the 300th anniversary of the city's foundation, one just has to go to the first or second backyard off central Nevskij Prospect to find staircases littered with syringes--and to enter a different world. Photographs and interviews tell the stories of children and youths who live often on roofs and attics, five or six floors above the city's streets where they hope to find a kind of home. Here they sleep, here they can take drugs without being apprehended, and here, too, they make money from prostitution. 'Karat' is the brand name of a shoe polish containing solvents that many of them inhale.
653115