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Novels set in Saint Petersburg

  • Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky stood in a small room in Wiesbaden, Germany, during the summer of 1865. He owed large sums to creditors and needed money desperately to…
  • Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky announced his new work in the journal Epoch during 1864. He called it A Confession before changing the title to Notes from Underground.
  • War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, the year he married and settled at his country estate. He wrote to Elizabeth Bers asking for chronicles or…