Out of all Russian writers the human nature was best explored and understood by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tour tells a story about Dostoevsky’s dramatic life, work and romantic love. We follow Dostoevsky’s footsteps in St. Petersburg: visit the Engineers’ Castle where he studied, places where he lived and created his famous novels, the site of the writer’s mock execution on Semenovsky Square, the Hay Market Square – the oldest existing market square and the core of St. Petersburg slums in the XIX c., and Dostoyevsky’ last apartment where he died in 1881 (including the tour inside the Apartment Museum and the Literature Exhibition). We’ll pay a visit to the practicing Vladimirskaya Church where the burial service for Dostoevsky took place.

We take a 30 min walk in the so called Dostoevsky area, “inhabited” by the characters of his novel “Crime and Punishment” and follow the murder route from Raskolnikov’s house to the house of the Pawn Broker to discover that nothing has changed since one and a half centuries ago.

In our research we meander through the maze of backyards of this huge stage set that is called St. Petersburg – a city that itself is one of the main characters of Dostoevsky’s novels.

The tour ends at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery grave-yard at Dostoevsky’s grave.

The tour will take approximately 3.5 hours, including a 30 min walk and excursion of Dostoevsky Apartment Museum.

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