Dostoevsky - 200 years

November 11 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fedor Dostoevsky. For the writer’s anniversary, many sites have prepared special projects, commemorative actions are held in St. Petersburg.

"Paper" chose six ideas on how to celebrate Dostoevsky's birthday. Read where to try a cocktail named after the story “meek”, what socks are included in Dostoevschina’s set and how the writer was portrayed by St. Petersburg street artists.

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Inspect the new exposition at the Dostoevsky Museum with audio guide

The Museum of Fedor Mikhailovich since 1971 has been working in Kuznechny Lane - in the house where the writer rented an apartment. In September, the new literary exposition “ Dostoevsky. Life and creativity: Pro et contra ”, which occupied two halls. The first is dedicated to the life of the writer until 1864, the second - the late period of Dostoevsky’s work and the creation of the Great Pentateuch . Documents, images and other exhibits are supplemented by video materials, photographs and media content, also visitors provide an audio guide in several languages.

The museum also plans to further expansion: the Petersburg Dostoevsky fund bought another apartment in this house to the writer’s anniversary and is working to purchase the last communal apartment in the building.

Drink cocktails and look at the restaurant named after Dostoevsky

The Orthodox bar on Rubinstein Street is known for drinks in the Russian style: they are prepared on cherry moonshine, vanilla vodka and other national drinks. The names of cocktails are sent to the work of Russian writers, artists and composers. One of the blocks in the cocktail menu is dedicated to Fedor Dostoevsky, four drinks are offered to all guests. Among them - a “meek” cocktail on vodka with Bulgarian pepper, pineapple and salty caramel, “Dyadyushkin Sleep” on a muscat chacha and a set of three shots “Brothers Karamazov”.

The writer is also used by restaurateurs: so, with Author Boutique Hotel, the institution “ F. M. Dostoevsky ” works on Vladimir Prospekt. There, smoked salmon on Olch, vekyatin cakes, daily cabbage soup, fire cutlets and other dishes of Russian cuisine are served there.

Listen to the audio project about Dostoevsky and see the performances based on his works

By the 200th anniversary of the writer, the Service Service Storytel, together with the “Dubbing Actors”, was prepared by the audio project “ Dostoevsky Non-Writer! ", Designed to show the listeners of a living person, not a classic from a school textbook. Users will hear excerpts from the diary records of the wife of the writer Anna, the notes of Dostoevsky “Siberian notebook”, the novel “Evgeny Grande” by Honore de Balzac and other materials translated by him.

You can consolidate impressions in many St. Petersburg theaters: performances based on Dostoevsky’s works are often and willingly. For example, in the “Comedian shelter” they show “ Crime and Punishment ” in the production of Konstantin Bogomolov , and the Workshop Theater recently presented the public based on the “Besses” of Roman Gabria . The letter of Dostoevsky was voiced for the theater project “ Love Letters ”. Special shows of performances on Dostoevsky will be held at other sites, information about them can be found here .

Buy a set of socks "Dostoevschina" or other merchant related to the writer

Petersburg brand St. Friday Socks released the “literary” collection in 2018, it also included socks with the inscription “Trembling creature”. Later, the design was reviewed - now customers are offered multi -colored socks with the inscriptions “the mood to be a trembling creature” and “the mood have the right”. And on the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky, the brand developed the Dostoevschina collection: the socks depict sketches with cats based on “humiliated and offended”, “player” and other works of the author. Other St. Petersburg companies also make Merch on the motives of Dostoevsky’s work - for example, the Dostoevsky City project sells clothes, souvenirs and accessories with prints based on the writer's books.

Look at the image of Dostoevsky in the works of street artists - and go to the exhibition dedicated to the writer

Motives from the classic’s work are also used in St. Petersburg Street Art: for example, the Moscow artist Zoom created the work “ Dostoevsky dismembering the liberal idea ” on the embankment of the Griboedov channel, a few steps from Raskolnikov’s house. Another work dedicated to the writer appeared on Egorov Street: the portrait of the writer was accompanied by the inscription “Suffering? Fedor Mikhailovich approves. "

Both works created in 2019, so you can only see them in the photo - the communal workers have already painted on graffiti. But everyone can visit exhibitions about Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg museums. The Pashkov’s house “ The Prophet of the New Time ” works, in the Peter and Paul Fortress- an exhibition about Dostoevsky-Western , and in the Mikhailovsky castle two exhibitions dedicated to the writer were opened at once. One is about the image of Dostoevsky in Russian fine art, the second - about the artistic preferences of the classic of Russian literature.

Inspect the mosaics in the lobby of the station "Spasskaya" metro station and find among the heroes of the young Dostoevsky

The underground lobby of the Spasskaya metro station is decorated with five mosaic panels: three mosaics are located above the escalators, two more on the side wall. The artist Alexander Bystrov depicted on the panel of the Sennaya Square of the 19th century with the shopping rows and the Sennan Sennan Cathedral. The heroes of Mosaic were 27 men, six women and two teenagers, many characters were written off from figures of Russian art - for example, from Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. Somewhere on the mosaics there are young Fedor Dostoevsky, as well as his heroes: Rodion Raskolnikov, Sonya Marmeladova, Parfen Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

What else to read:

• Five addresses of Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg: from the house of the old woman-percentress to the apartment where Dostoevsky wrote the "player".
• “The day when I read Dostoevsky was the day of farewell with naivety”: as the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk devoted a lecture to Russian classics .
• “Welcome, humiliated and offended”: how Petersburgers joke in social networks on the renaming of Pulkov in honor of Dostoevsky.