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Sunday, 22.07.2007
Dostoyevski Museum
In the midst of the lively district by the Vladimir Church, beside Kusnetchny Market, is the memorial museum for Fyodor Dostoyevski. He spent the last years of his life in this typical tenement building, and died here in 1881.
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The interior of the corner apartment on the second floor, with a view of the church, has been reconstructed as it was in those days. Visitors ring the doorbell, step through the door and are immersed in the atmosphere of a Petersburger intellectual’s apartment at the end of the 19th century.
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Kusnetchny Pereulok 5
Nearest Metro: Dostoyevskaya, Vladimirskaya
Opening hours: 11.00am - 5.30pm
Closed: Mondays, last Wednesday in the month
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Straight on entering, the feeling grabs you that the apartment’s owner has only retired a little further into his rooms for a couple of minutes - his walking stick hangs in the wardrobe, his hat is ready at hand (but under a glass cover).
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The table is laid in the dining room, a hobbyhorse stands in the children’s room, and in the master’s study, a half-drunk cup of the strongest tea occupies its habitual place on the desk. Everything just as it was in Dostoyevski’s day.
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Other parts of the museum concern themselves with Dostoyevski’s works. Here a guided tour is useful to explain the significance of the many documents, pictures and photographs.
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The museum, established in 1971 on the 150th anniversary of his birth, also contains exhibitions of Russian and international artists and photographers, and holds high-class annual conferences and seminars on contemporary research on Dostoyevski.
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