Петербург Достоевского-петрашевца (опыт построения справочника-путеводителя)
Saint Petersburg of Dostoevsky as a Petrashevsky’s Circle Member (an Experience of Composing a Guide-book)

Summary/Abstract: The publication is an experience of composing a Saint Petersburg guide-book by Dostoevsky as a Petrashevsky circle member. All the addresses of the Northern capital more or less significant for the Dostoevsky’s biography as the member of the Petrashevsky’s socialist circle, get described in a systematic manner. Besides, the life events of the writer related to this or that address get published. All the data are provided with documentary, memoir and epistolary sources. Each article is dedicated to a particular address, accompanied with the respective bibliography. The materials in the guide-book are put in a chronological order if possible: from the Wolf baker’s shop where in May, 1846 Dostoevsky got acquainted with Petrashevsky, up to the Semyonovsky parade ground where in December, 1849 the false execution over the Petrashevsky’s circle members was held and the route of escorting of the writer from the Peter and Paul Fortress to Siberia on Christmas Eve. Along with the historic addresses given in accordance with the documents of the 1840s the actual addresses of Dostoevsky’s places of staying get indicated as well.

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