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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A hot July in the Haymarket district, 1865. Dostoevsky censored his own street names, and this walk reconstructs them.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In a small Russian town, the dissolute Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons, the sensual Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan and the saintly novice Alyosha, are drawn toward the old man's murder and the questions of faith, doubt and guilt that surround it. Dostoevsky's fictional Skotoprigonyevsk is drawn from Staraya Russa, where he wrote the novel: the family house, the monastery of the Elder Zosima, the taverns of Dmitri's ruin, and the courtroom of the trial that closes the book.
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's second great Petersburg novel, mapped from the terminus of the Warsaw railway through the salons and the merchant streets to the leafy summer resort of Pavlovsk, thirty kilometres south, where much of the second half unfolds. A companion to Crime and Punishment: the same city, a different fever.
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