Petersburg is the city in which Feodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky spent most of his life and in which he wrote most of his writings. During 28 years he rented more than 20 apartments. A lot of houses in St. Petersburg are linked with Dostoevsky in a peculiar way: he 'lodged' his characters in them. The writer's own life was thus intermingled with the lives of the heroes in his novels. The scene of each Dostoevsky's novel is usually laid in the vicinity of the apartment the writer was renting at the time. Having finished a novel Dostoevsky could no longer stay in the area 'inhabited' by the 'worked-out' characters. Dostoevsky's researchers believe that it was the reason why the writer could not stay in one place for a long time, but kept moving house. Old Petersburg's topography is most completely and precisely represented in Dostoevsky's novels Poor Folk, The Diary of a Dreamer - White Nights, The Insulted and Injured, Crime and Punishment, Idiot and Raw Youth.

You have a chance to get on a journey through the old Petersburg, to an area where Dostoevsky and a host of his immortal characters dwelt. Guided walks to the area are offered by the Dostoevsky Memorial Museum. Expert guides will take you on a journey in time. You have only to imagine that you are walking along cobblestone streets lit by dim gas lamps, that the traffic is not modern cars, but old-fashioned carriages and carts, while the churches destroyed during the years of communism remain in the streets and squares... You will see St. Petersburg as it is seen by the artist Boris Kostygov whose drawings surround the map. Join us on a journey through this fantastic city.