Self-drive route “To Dostoevsky’s Town”

This self-drive route across the Novgorod Region was created by the Rus Novgorodskaya tourist office in partnership with Rosneft. Rosneft filling stations provide fuel, cafés with coffee and fresh pastries, travel essentials and service. The company promotes domestic road travel in Russia; travellers can join the Family Team loyalty programme and check personal offers in their account. Fyodor Dostoevsky House Museum Staraya Russa was the only town where Dostoevsky had “a home of his own”. He wrote The Demons, The Adolescent, The Brothers Karamazov and other works here. The museum recreates a 19th-century interior with furniture, photographs and books. Staraya Russa, Dostoevsky Embankment, 42/2 Museum of the Novel The Brothers Karamazov Dedicated to Dostoevsky’s final novel, written in Staraya Russa in the late 70s of the 19th century. Staraya Russa, Dostoevsky Embankment, 8 Theatrical gastronomic programme “Tea with the Dostoevskys” A programme inspired by Russian estate culture and the tea-drinking traditions of the writer’s family. It consists of two parts: a guided tour and a tasting. Staraya Russa, Dostoevsky Embankment, 42/2 Staraya Russa Resort A spa resort with distinctive mineral waters and therapeutic muds, established in the 19th century under the name Staraya Russa Mineral Waters. It was popular with Russian aristocrats, artists, nobles and members of the imperial family. Staraya Russa, Mineralnaya St., 62, room 18 Medieval Rusha Resident’s Estate Museum An open-air reconstruction of a medieval estate based on archaeological research, recreating historic everyday rural life. Staraya Russa, Svaroga St., 44 Tsaritsynsky Spring One of Staraya Russa’s main springs, located in the floodplain of the Polist and Porusya rivers. It appeared after a well was drilled for a saltworks in the 19th century. Its mineral water was used to produce salt and prepare solutions for the Imperial balneological and mud-treatment resort. GPS coordinates: 57.983310, 31.334882 Travel Palace in Korostyn The museum presents permanent displays on local history, the peace treaty between Veliky Novgorod and Moscow, Novgorod Region clay toys, works by Russian artists and photographers, and an exclusive model of the Ilmen Glint geological monument. The palace also hosts the “Slovenian Fish” stone-painting workshop. Ilmen Glint geological monument An exposed lakeside cliff up to 15 metres high and 8 kilometres long. Fossil fragments of ancient fish from the Devonian period and shells of ancient molluscs can still be found here. Visitors come year-round for the landscape and views over the lake.