Literature
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Created here
Alonkin House
He lived here while writing Crime and Punishment and dictating The Gambler.
Commemorated here
Former Kazan District Police Office
He transformed the district police office into both a psychological trap and the endpoint of Raskolnikov's confession.
Commemorated here
Grivtsova Lane
He encoded the lane as K-ny Lane in the conversation that triggers Raskolnikov's crime.
Commemorated here
Kokushkin Bridge
He encoded Kokushkin Bridge in the opening sentence and made it a recurring threshold in the novel.
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Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
He used the boulevard for a disturbing episode testing Raskolnikov's capacity for pity.
Commemorated here
Pawnbroker's House
The building is the leading candidate for the enormous, crowded tenement where he staged the novel's double murder.
Commemorated here
Raskolnikov House
The building is traditionally identified with the garret and courtyard he described in Crime and Punishment.
Studied here
Saint Michael's Castle
Cadet at the Main Engineering School housed in the Engineers’ (Mikhailovsky) Castle, 1838–1843.
Commemorated here
Savior-on-Sennaya Memorial Chapel
He placed Raskolnikov's attempted act of repentance beside the former church on Sennaya Square.
Commemorated here
Sennaya Square
He made Sennaya Square the social and moral center of Crime and Punishment.
Lived here
Shil House
He lived and wrote here until his arrest in the Petrashevsky Circle case in April 1849.
Commemorated here
Sonya Marmeladova House
He used the canal-side building's irregular geometry for Sonya's room in Crime and Punishment.
Burial place
Tikhvin Cemetery
Historic cemetery and part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, known for its notable interments of Russian cultural figures.
Performed here
Trinity Cathedral
Married Anna Snitkina at Trinity (Izmailovsky) Cathedral on 15 February 1867.
Commemorated here
Voznesensky Bridge
He concentrated several of Crime and Punishment's scenes of suicide, poverty, and madness around this bridge.
Commemorated here
Vyazemsky Lavra Remnant
He drew the criminal and impoverished world around the Vyazemsky houses into Crime and Punishment.
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