Description of the attraction
In 1971, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, a new literary and memorial museum was opened in St. Petersburg. It is located in a house in Kuznechny Lane, where the great writer spent the last, but also the most fruitful years of his life, where the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" was born.
After the revolution, this apartment was forgotten, it was turned into a communal apartment. And only in 1956, a memorial plaque was hung on this house. In 1968, a major overhaul was carried out here, and in 1971 a museum was finally opened. It was not easy to collect exhibits for such a museum, it was done literally bit by bit. The writer's office was recreated according to the memoirs of contemporaries and rare surviving photographs. The rest of the furnishings of the memorial apartment were reproduced according to archival data, trying to achieve compliance even in the smallest details, up to the icon of the Virgin in the writer's office and the medicine box on his desk. At one time, the writer's wife, who also performed the duties of a secretary and stenographer under him, compiled a catalog of books belonging to Dostoevsky. According to this list, the writer's library was painstakingly recreated.
In addition to the personal belongings of the writer, which we managed to collect, an exposition reflecting the work and literary activity of Dostoevsky is displayed in two rooms of the apartment. In the first hall, visitors get acquainted with the biography of the writer, and in the second - with the history of the creation of the most famous works and with the creative side of his work. The most interesting exhibit of the literary exposition of the museum-apartment is the map "Petersburg of Dostoevsky". The places and addresses where the heroes of the writer live and act and where he once lived are marked on it. The second hall of the literary exhibition reproduces the atmosphere of Dostoevsky's five outstanding novels: The Teenager, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons. There are also the books themselves, photographs of the places in which the events of the novels take place, things and objects that are described in his works, are displayed portraits of Dostoevsky's contemporaries, which became the prototypes of his book heroes.
The basis of the museum was the collection, which was collected by the grandson of the writer, Andrei Fedorovich, and the relics of the writer's family, donated to the museum by his grand-niece. In the museum you can see a collection of programs and posters for theatrical performances, which were staged based on the works of Dostoevsky, see films based on his novels.
The Dostoevsky Museum-Apartment hosts scientific conferences, literary evenings, exhibitions dedicated to the memory of the great writer. The museum has a very special, unforgettable atmosphere.
