Dostoevsky stayed up in his study working into the small hours, while he drank innumerable cups of strong tea from the samovar. The large photographic copy of the writer’s favourite painting, Raphael’s Sistine Madonna is hanging over the divan bed. In the study he wrote, besides The Brothers Karamazov, the last issues of the A Writer’ Diary and the renowned speech, The Pushkin Address, which shook Russia in 1880. In January 1881, when Dostoevsky was working in his study, he dropped a pen which rolled down under a bookshelf. He made an attempt at moving the heavy bookshelf, and the effort caused the rupture of a blood vessel in the lung. A hemorrhage ensued, and two days later, on the 28th of January 1881, the writer died. The funerary procession started from Kuznechny lane on the 1st of February. The writer’s friends and colleagues carried the coffin on their shoulders to the Our Lady of Vladimir Cathedral and then, along Nevsky Prospect, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Monastery) where the writer was buried. Thousands of people followed his hearth to the cemetery.