Dostoevsky

... No. 1, 7, and 9. The street was then called Malaya Meschanskaya, or Petit Bourgeois Street. As we are walking towards Dostoevsky’s residence I bring pictures from his books and I remember when some years back I was reading “Crime and ...

2716 km from Moscow We made a quick stop 15 min in Omsk, the town of Dostoevsky's exile. Too short to have time to visit, just the time to take some fresh air before to return in the not anymore fresh air of the wagon. On of the nice family went out, ...

... bodies of Peter and Catherine the Great. And, to be walking the same prison hallways that Pushkin, Gorky, and Dostoevsky wandered during their respective incarcerations. We have been reading a great deal of Dostoevsky in Civilization, and Pushkin in Arts ...

... Lolita that the book became well known and Nabokov infamous. She is sure that it was written through his love of Dostoevsky who also wrote about paedophilia and whose novels were full of unsavoury characters, and absolutely not from personal experience. ...

... so that our last meal together is memorable. Eva wants to find a restaurant she has read about called "The Idiot" after a Dostoevsky novel, and we begin walking down a lovely canal in that direction. One of the first restaurants we see has music coming ...

... of the most important cemeteries in the city and the final resting place of yes, you get where I'm going with this, Dostoevsky as well as composers Tchaikovsky (think Nutcracker and Swan Lake), Borodin and Mussorgsky. We could barely stand at this point ...

... ocean deeps. Or, perhaps spent some time with Dostoevsky in the House of the Dead, suffering through the retched conditions Dostoevsky himself was forced to tolerate. While pondering questions such as these, I began to ponder what adventures might be in ...

... until 11. It's much harder to waste time here because I don't have the internet in my house. I waste time now by reading Dostoevsky or writing a new blog entry, like I'm doing now.   The weekends are pretty different. Sometimes I sit and do ...

... every five minutes it seems. The Russians seem very proud of their culture. Tomorrow I hope to actually enter Dostoevsky's home, see his museum, and visit the actually apartment that Bulgakov wrote about in Master and ...

... the villages slowly pass. Spassk-Dalny, where Solzhenitsyn learnt to use a pitch-fork. Further down the track, Omsk, where Dostoevsky laboured ... "in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick. From dusk to ...

... , it was most certainly this man. He was indeed a captivating writer, influencing the likes of Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky among others.  But on top of his eloquent fiction he was an active statesman and philanthropist making him perhaps ...

... got closer. It was night-time by then so there was nothing to see anyway. An hour later I started reading my book. It's Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, I was saving it for the Russian part of my trip but my bag is so heavy I thought best get it ...