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Dostoevsky's work is steeped in the working-class atmosphere of 19C St Petersburg, in particular of the low-life Hay Square district, which swarmed with cabarets, brothels and inns of ill repute. Today the "underbelly of St. Petersburg", formerly the site of a wood, livestock and hay market, has had a facelift and is now depicted by modern steel and granite banks and shopping malls. But the ghosts of Raskolnikov and Dostoevsky still seem to prowl...
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- The Green Guide402 m - Grajdanskaïa oulitsa 19/Stoliarny pereoulok 5, Sankt-Peterburg
- The Green Guide404 m - Sankt-Peterburg
- The Green Guide786 m - Naberejnaïa kanala Griboïedova 104/Sredniaïa Podiatcheskaïa oulitsa 15, Sankt-Peterburg
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