Hotel Dostoevsky

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 's and their families, as well as the former Trubestskoy Prison, which housed many high ranking and famous political prisoners including Dostoevsky and many of the Decemberists (not the band). Our first stop was the Cathedral to view the various crypts of ...

... , Tacitus, Plato, Plutarch, Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and more recently, the autobiography of US Grant, works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Balzac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton (the African explorer not the actor), Edgar Allen Poe, Theodore Roosevelt, ...

... 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 ...

... finally let us pay the 300 and opened up the back doors. I hate Russian taxi drivers. Elissa was going to go to the Dostoevsky Museum (absolute bore!) and I was gonna hit the internet, in shifts so we didn't pay for luggage storage (already did at the ...

... 's Revenge Award for being the first to fall victim to a Russian pathogen, and for not letting it keep him down. The Dostoevsky "Crime Without Punishment" Award for a) getting pick-pocketed b) having a credit card stolen from his room, and c) getting ...

... ...   Balzac, Hugo, Stendhal were hardly less frequently read in Russia than Russia's own Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky...but it wasn't just culture, language and literature...even the layout of many cities, city gardens and ...

... it time for beer in the sun and a look in some designer shops and dinner 'The Idiot' on Moyki 82 which named after Dostoevsky's novel as he frequented this establishment, and it had yummy vege comfort food. Then we had lovely romantic walk home across the ...

... of dazzling European renaissance style, intermingled with the slight heaviness of a rigid communist style.   I even ran into Dostoevsky on a street corner.... The Kremlin and it's entourage of floor to ceiling church frescoes stunned me like no ...

... have never ceased to live that earth, and perhaps on the very night I parted from it I loved it more than ever." -FM Dostoevsky, "Dream of a Ridiculous Man" I arrived in Kiev this morning after an eight-hour train ride from Moscow. Just as I  set off ...

... and Paul Fortress constructed in 1703 as the primary defense for the new city but mostly utilized as a prison for the likes of Dostoevsky, Trotsky, and even Peter’s own son, Alexei. Within the fortress walls—with its lovely spire and Baroque ...

... to see paintings in real life that I've only seen in books (Ivan the Terrible from my European History textbook, Fyodor Dostoevsky from our copy of Crime and Punshment, and the cover art for our version of Anna Karenina). After the Tretyakov Gallery, ...

Arrival in St. ...