Pushkin and Dostoevsky Tour

Culture and History tour in St. Petersburg

Tour Price : from 50 EUR per person Duration : 4 hours Languages: English, German

Pushkin and Dostoevsky both lived in St. Petersburg and they both contributed hugely to the creation of the unique phenomenon of St. Petersburg text.Pushkin created here his Petersburg poem “The Bronze Horseman” and the encyclopedia of the Russian 19th c. life “Eugene Onegin”, the novel “Queen of Spades”. We will see the part of the city known as “St. Petersburg of Pushkin” – the world of harmonious, glamorous palaces and mansions along the Moika River, where Pushkin lived and worked, and the museum of Pushkin located in the house where he died after the duel. Dostoevsky came to St. Petersburg in the year of Pushkin’s death (1837).

The part of the city where he lived was known as “the guts” of the city at that time. The phenomenon of St. Petersburg of Dostoevsky appeared thanks to the novel “Crime and Punishment” which was written here in 1866. In this famous and “the most Petersburg” novel, he gave a detailed, even scrupulous description of Sennaya Square district. We will walk along the footsteps of the heroes of the novel, see the houses of Raskolnikov, Sonia and Aliona Ivanovna and the houses where the writer lived. The tour can include the inside visit of the museum of Pushkin and the museum of Dostoevsky.

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