Dostoyevskaya

On October 30, 1821, in an apartment annex of the Moscow Marinsky Hospital for the Poor on Bozhedomka Street, where Mikhail Dostoevsky served as a staff doctor, his wife Maria gave birth to a son, Fyodor. The future writer lived in this residence until May 1837, when his father sent him to Petersburg with his older brother Mikhail. Dostoevsky's first and happiest memories are associated with Moscow - his gentle, loving mother; his brothers and sisters, with whom he shared true friendship; family reading sessions; their walks around the city together, visiting churches, holidays, fairs; first books; and going to the theater. Images from his childhood would remain in his memory throughout his life: "A person cannot even live without something sacred and precious from childhood to carry into life These memories may even be painful or bitter, yet the suffering one has undergone can be later transformed into something sacred for the soul. People, in fact, are generally so created as to love the suffering they have undergone". One of Dostoevsky's favorite characters, Alyosha Karamazov, expresses the author's own deepest-held thoughts at the end of the novel The Brothers Karamazov: "You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, and especially a memory of childhood, of home If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days" The presence of Moscow can be felt in many of Dostoevsky's works. However, in most cases Moscow events occur "behind the scenes" - some of Dostoevsky's characters spend their childhood in Moscow, others go there for some time. In the novels this is usually only mentioned, and the action is not transferred to Moscow. The city always remained Dostoevsky's "distant homeland." Again and again he would return there, occasionally several times a year. After prison camp and exile in Siberia, Dostoevsky wanted to live in Moscow. All his letters of this period end with some expression of his hope to return there. However, his brother Mikhail, with whom he was preparing to undertake new literary projects, resided elsewhere and fate brought him back to Petersburg. Dostoevsky was in Moscow for the last time six months before his death. At the 1880 celebrations for the unveiling of a monument to Aleksandr Pushkin, he gave his famous speech on the poet, which became, in a way, the writer's own spiritual testament. His speech made an extraordinary impression, as Dostoevsky informed his wife by letter: "I finally began reading: I was stopped by thunderous applause on absolutely every page, and sometimes even at every sentence...Strangers among the audience wept, sobbed, embraced each other and swore to one another to be better, not to hate one another from now on, but instead to love one another". In 1837 Dostoevsky had left Moscow as a young unknown, and in 1880 he departed as a great writer, applauded by the entire city. On November 11,1928, Moscow witnessed the opening of the first F.M. Dostoevsky Museum, located in the northern wing of the former Marinsky Hospital for the Poor, the site of the writer's birth and childhood. Family heirlooms (books, portraits, and household items) supplied by the writer's descendants formed the basis of the exhibit. From the family estate in Darovoe, the museum received some of the furniture that had belonged to Dostoevsky's parents. In the 1930s, the holdings were enriched by a unique and invaluable source: the belongings of the writer's widow, Anna Grigorievna. The Dostoevskys' former apartment never underwent remodeling, but from 1979-1982, after some repair and restoration work, the adjoining rooms were also reconstructed. The interiors of the apartment were recreated according to the memoirs of Dostoevsky's younger brother, Andrei, who described, in great detail, the years he spent with his older brothers in his parents' home: "our father, already a family man, having at that time four or five children, and enjoying the rank of senior officer, occupied an apartm

If i have to choose the best looking metro station in Moscow (which if really hard), i'd say Dostoyevskaya. Pictures of characters and scenes form his novels are all around marble walls. You'll enjoy to see that for sure.

This is a great place. We saw a 3D New Years Eve show and it was wonderful. The Soviet Army Theater is one of the best theaters in Moscow next to the Bolshoy theater.

Your doing yourself a disservice if you don't ride the subway and stop at each and every subway station in Moscow.

Not buzy subway