Exhibition 'F. M. Dostoevsky Memorial Apartment'

About exhibition

The Dostoevsky Museum opened on November 13, 1971. In this house Dostoevsky worked on the early novella 'The Double', and his final novel 'The Brothers Karamazov' was written here. With an admission ticket you can visit the writer's memorial apartment, the literary exhibition 'F. M. Dostoevsky. Life and Work: Pro et Contra' and temporary exhibitions. The Dostoevsky family's apartment consists of six rooms recreated from the recollections of contemporaries and the writer's wife. The literary exhibition tells the story of the writer's life and work. The first hall is devoted to events from Dostoevsky's birth up to 1864 — the milestone preceding the creation of the novels of the great five-novel cycle. The second hall covers 1864–1881, years exceptional for the creative intensity in the writer's life. The focus is on five novels: 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'Demons' (also published as 'The Possessed'), 'The Adolescent', and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.