The drawing room where Dostoevsky received guests: prominent literary figures of the 19th-century Petersburg. The writer would often sit there alone and work far into the night, stuffing long cigarettes with his favourite brand of tobacco, while plans and details for his novels were swirling in his mind. The years that Dostoevsky spent in his last apartment were culminating in his career as a writer and religious thinker. It was there that the masterpiece of world literature ‘The Brothers Karamazov” was written. In one of these rooms his imagination materialized the devil who had visited Ivan Karamazov, the somber hero of the novel. In the same rooms other pages of his books had been nurtured, swathed in spiritual light and admiration of life.