Dostoevsky Houses
Dostoevsky Houses
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Lonely Planet review for Dostoevsky Houses
Dostoevsky lived in three flats on this tiny street alone. From 1861 to 1863, he lived at No 1. In 1864, he spent one month living in the faded red building at No 9, before moving to No 7. Here, he lived from 1864 to 1867 and wrote Crime and Punishment; indeed, the route taken by the novel’s antihero Raskolnikov to murder the old woman moneylender passed directly under his window. While this area has changed enormously, it’s still possible to catch glimpses of the grim reality of slum life that pervaded this place in the mid-19th century.
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