Literary Walks with Dostoevsky (Book Review: Tikhomirov B. N. Dostoevsky. Literary Walks Along Nevsky Prospekt. From the Winter Palace to Znamenskaya Square. Мoscow, Lingvistika Publ., Boslen Publ., 2022. 480 p.)

Abstract

In B. N. Tikhomirov’s book “Dostoevsky. Literary walks along Nevsky Prospekt. From the Winter Palace to Znamenskaya Square” shows St. Petersburg in the time of F. M. Dostoevsky. In particular, it contains a description of the architectural landscape of Nevsky Prospekt, discusses Dostoevsky’s relationship with contemporary writers, critics and editors of magazines, offers historical, cultural and everyday commentary on fragments from “A Writer’s Diary,” the novels “Crime and Punishment,” “The Idiot,” “A Raw Youth,” stories “The Double,” “Notes from the Underground,” “The Crocodile,” describes the prototypes of the heroes of these works, and shows their routes. The essays and artistic miniatures included in the book recreate living images of the great writer and his contemporaries, raise acute moral and socio-political problems. The book becomes a journey for the reader in different senses — geographical, historical, artistic, and mental.