Petersburg: Utilities painted graffiti with Dostoevsky

In St. Petersburg, utilities painted a fresco with the image of the writer Fedor Dostoevsky in Kuznechny Lane, which was made by the artist Oleg Lukyanov. The drawing was applied to the wall to the 200th anniversary of the writer. This is written in the group of artists Urbanfresco.

“Crime and punishment. Crime: placing a portrait of Dostoevsky using the Russian Graffiti technology (Urbanfresco). Punishment: Blood Blood Blood. Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg became Persona Non Grata: Fedor Mikhailovich was refused to be in St. Petersburg. Pommunal demons painted the author of“ demons ”,” the artists write.

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• For the first time, public utilities in St. Petersburg have been painting over various graffiti created by street artists. Communal services erased drawings dedicated to Viktor Tsoi , Sergey Bodrov . In the spring of 2020, public utilities destroyed graffiti dedicated to Joseph Brodsky. The drawing was painted over by decree of the head of the local school.
• In 2021, unknown on the facade of the transformer booth painted graffiti in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. A few hours later the drawing disappeared, and the police opened a criminal case, but later stopped it.
• Locals have repeatedly asked and continue to ask officials not to paint a drawing. Now Petersburgers are trying to defend the famous graffiti dedicated to Daniil Harms. Residents gather hundreds of signatures under the petition in defense of the drawing, which appeared on the facade of the house on Mayakovskaya Street 11, where Harms lived in 2016. But the court ordered the HOA to destroy graffiti.

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