Malaya Meshchanskaya street viewed from Sennaya Square. In Malaya Meshchanskaya Dostoevsky rented a few apartments from 1861 to 1867. In number 7 he wrote the novels Crime and Punishment and The Gambler. He dictated The Gambler to the young stenographer Anna Grigorievna Snytkina who later became his wife and devoted assistant.