Dostoevsky Day

Today I decided to visit a few sites that would require me to navigate my way around the city. I wanted to work on reading maps and signs in Russian. I did a Dostoevsky tour. One of my favorite authors lived and wrote and was imprisoned and was buried right here in St Petersburg. It was another day of "Things That May Interest Only Me."

Just a few blocks from my hostel is a house where he lived. And at the far end of town is a monastery in which he is buried. It's sort of a celebrity graveyard, with some of the most influential and famous former city residents buried there, including the composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky.

This is me at Dostoevsky's grave: