Out of all Russian writers the human nature was best explored and understood by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tour tells about Dostoevsky’s dramatic life, work and romantic love. We follow Dostoevsky’s footsteps in St. Petersburg: visit Engineers’ Castle where he studied, houses where he lived and worked on his famous novels, the site of the writer’s mock execution at Semenovsky Square, the Hay Market Square – the oldest existing market square and the core of St. Petersburg slums in the XIX c. 

The tour takes you inside the Dostoyevsky’ last Apartment at 5, Kuznechny pereulok, just beyond the market, where the writer lived during the last years of his life and where he wrote “The Brothers Karamazov “. Faithfully reconstructed from photos and drawings, the apartment is surprisingly cheerful and comfortable. Dostoyevsky died of a throat hemorrhage while making an entry in his diary. The clock in the study was stopped at the exact time of his death: 8.38 p.m. January 28, 1881. The Museum Literary exhibition tells about Dostoyevsky’s life and creative work.

We’ll also pay a visit to the practicing Vladimirskaya Church, where the burial service for the writer took place. 

Included is a 30 min walk in so called Dostoevsky area, “inhabited” by the characters of his novel “Crime and Punishment”. We follow the “murder route” from Raskolnikov’s  house to the house of the Pawn Broker to discover that nothing changed since one and a half centuries ago.

In our research we meander through the maze of backyards of this huge stage set that is called St. Petersburg – a city that itself is one of the main characters of Dostoevsky’s novels.

The tour ends at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery grave-yard at Dostoevsky’s grave.