The village Lakhta includes 72 country homesteads, it is located on the north coast of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, west of Staraia Derevnia /Old Village/ (5-6 versts), and set in the low and sandy, therefore, relatively dry area. 5/6 of the rural population are Finns who speak Russian badly. They usually rent their winter cotteges for summer, while they live in barns for housing farm animals. The country people live solely on renting their cotteges for summer, selling milk as well as, partly, on farming, driving carts and disposing of sewage from the city. In Lakhta there is never such mud as in Novaia Derevnia /New Village/. Roads are dry, broad, covered with coarse sand; along both sides of Lakhtinskii Prospekt /Lakhta Avenue/ there are dug channels which water can flow down…. When the strong wind comes from the sea, vegetable gardens, meadows, yards, cellars and ice-houses are flooded. In wells there is water of poor quality; it is given only to farm animals; summer visitors and country people consume sea-water. Reasonable cleanness of the place, sandy soil, pine woods and bathing in the Gulf attract even well-off visitors to the area.

V.K.Simanskii. Where to go to the country.
St. Petersburg country places in regards to their healthiness.
St. Petersburg, 1889.

Lakhta is the village situated 9 versts (one verst = 3500 ft.) from Novaia Derevnia /New Village/ on the Seaside Railway where the river Lakhta drains into the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. It has significant historic associations with Peter the Great who often visited it; in the beginning of November 1724, sailing by the gulf nearby Lakhta to Saint-Petersburg, Peter saw a boat full of soldiers on a sand-bank, … immediately jumped into the cold water to render them assistance and … helped get the boat off the sand-bank and save the crew; here he catched a fatal cold from which he could never recover. The huge piece of granite formerly located in Lahta on the Gulf of Finland, from which Peter I used to observe the surroundings, later served as the base for the statue of the Great Reforming Tsar.

The chapel in the name of Saint Peter, was built on the Gulf of Finland in honor of Peter the Great.

The Memory Book of St. Petersburg Administrative Province. St. Petersburg, 1905.

Olgino. In summer there were many holiday visitors who were attracted by its close proximity to the city, the vicinity of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, low holiday cottage rates. Ducks were found in littoral rushes, visitors went fishing by dugouts in the Gulf of Finland. They swam from boats, аnd women took place on the beach apart from men.

Zasosov D.A., Pyzin V.I.
Saint Petersburg Life of the 1890s-1910s.
Notes of Witnesses. Leningrad, 1991.