The Dostoevsky Museum-Flat

The first Dostoevsky museum in the world, opened in 1928, and the only place bound up with his childhood: here he was born and lived his first sixteen years, while his father served as physician to the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor. The hospital beyond the window is not a background but a circumstance: the boy grew up among poverty and sickness, and half his books grow from here. In Doughty…