F. M. Dostoevsky House Museum

Staraya Russa was the only city where Dostoevsky had what he called “a nest of his own.” Here he worked on Demons, The Adolescent, The Brothers Karamazov, his Pushkin Speech and articles for A Writer’s Diary. The museum began with his wife Anna Grigoryevna, who two years after his death announced the opening of a Dostoevsky museum in their Staraya Russa house. The house was nationalized in 1918. The modern museum opened on 4 May 1981. Today its 19th-century interiors have been recreated with period furniture, photographs and books, offering a vivid sense of Dostoevsky’s era and his life in Staraya Russa.