Dostoevsky

The house where Dostoevsky spent his last years is located in the center of Petersburg and is open to visitors. Nearby are the streets where Raskolnikov "walked" and the courtyards that inspired the writer to create his most intense scenes.

Dostoevsky's Petersburg: the image of the city in the novel 'Crime and Punishment'

Dostoevsky's Petersburg: the city as an accomplice, the stuffiness of July 1865, the yellow color, Raskolnikov's closet, real houses of the characters, and a route through literary Petersburg.

Fyodor Dostoevsky spent most of his life in Saint Petersburg, and the city became not just a backdrop but a full-fledged participant in his works. The events of "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," "Demons," and other novels unfold here.

Sennaya Square, the embankments of the Griboyedov Canal, Kolomna, old tenement houses, and cramped courtyards – these places create the atmosphere familiar from the pages of his books. Many addresses associated with the writer and his characters have survived to this day.

Dostoevsky's Petersburg is an opportunity to see the city through literature, to understand how space influenced plot and characters, and to trace where real history intersects with the writer's fictional world.