104 Ekaterininsky chanel embankment (the same house - number 15 in Sredniaya Podiacheskaya street) is called 'the pawn woman's house'. Dostoevsky made it the site of Raskolnikov's crime. It was there that the hero mounted some steep steps of the back staircase, entered the flat of Aliona Ivanovna, the pawn woman, murdered her and then murdered her sister, the simple-hearted and harmless Lizaveta.