In the central district of Saint Petersburg, the apartment where the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky lived was put up for sale. The corresponding advertisement appeared on one of the specialized real estate portals in Russia.
“Attention investors and history buffs! The apartment in which FM Dostoevsky lived, Russian writer, philosopher and publicist, classic of world literature. It was here that the novel “Poor People” was written. – says the ad.
It is clarified that a four-bedroom apartment with an area of 104 m2. meters is located at the intersection of Vladimirskaya Street and Grafsky Lane. The living area is just over 66 square meters. meters. The house is equipped with two entrances: the main entrance and the entrance to the patio. On one of the walls of the house hangs a commemorative plaque dedicated to Dostoevsky.
“The apartment is completely unrenovated, which allows any fantasy to come true.” — the seller also points out.
The cost of the apartment is 25.5 million rubles.
The house was built in 1839 according to the architect’s design. Vasily Morgan. The building is known as “the apartment house of postal director Pryanichnikov.”
According to open sources, Dostoevsky initially rented an apartment on the second floor of this building together with his brother Andrei. Dostoevsky spent about three years in this house, from the spring of 1842 to 1845. Writers visited Dostoevsky in this apartment. Dmitri Grigorovich and Russian painter and illustrator Konstantin Trutovsky.
“There were books and sheets of paper scribbled on the table, on the chairs and on the floor.” – Trutovsky recalled.
Autumn 1842 Andrei Dostoevsky moved and the writer’s neighbor became his friend, an aspiring doctor, Alexey Riesenkampf. Patients came to Riesenkampf, mostly poor people, Dostoevsky talked a lot with them, and here the same Petersburg with its basements, attics, apartment buildings began to open up for him, which we would later constantly see in the writer’s prose.
