Петербургские адреса Николая Страхова
St. Petersburg Addresses of Nikolai Strakhov

Summary/Abstract: The article provides an overview of the St. Petersburg addresses of the philosopher, literary critic and publicist Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov (1828–1896), one of the closest people to Dostoevsky in the 1860s and 1870s and the author of the writer’s first posthumous biography. Based on memoir literature, correspondence, official documents based on address books, house journals, atlases of St. Petersburg, other reference literature of the 19th century. The article lists the residence addresses of the thinker since September 1844, when he arrived in the Northern capital from Kostroma, until the day of his death on January 24, 1896. In addition to his places of residence, the addresses of the educational institutions he attended (St. Petersburg Imperial University, the Main Pedagogical Institute) and his places of service (St. Petersburg Second Men’s Gymnasium, the Imperial Public Library, the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of National Education, the Committee of Foreign Censorship) are taken into account; addresses where the editorial circles of “Svetoch,” “Vremya,” “Epokha,” “Zarya” magazines gathered with the active participation of Strakhov. In all cases, both historical addresses (including the names of the homeowners) and their location on the map of modern St. Petersburg are indicated.

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