The museum devoted to the life and creative works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was opened in 1971 in the writer's last apartment where he lived from 1878 and where he died in 1881. The writer's widow, Anna Grigorievna, until her last days, tried to do everything to preserve the writer's manuscripts and belongings. Her belonging are also exhibited in the museum now.

Dostoevsky's apartment was restored using archival materials, photographs and memoirs of his contemporaries. The museum is divided into two parts: the memorial one and the literary one. The memorial part shows Dostoevsky's personal belongings and furniture. All these items are typical of the households of Russian intellectuals of the 2 nd half of the 19 th century. Many of these things were given to the museum by the writer's descendants.

The literary part of the museum shows how the novels Poor People , Crime and Punishment , Idiot , Demons , etc. were written and how they were connected with the circumstances of the writer's life. Here are copies of these books published in Dostoevsky's lifetime, illustrations to these books, books and photographs with autographs of the writer and his famous contemporaries, manuscripts, portraits.

Every year, in November, the international research conferences "Dostoevsky and World Culture" are held at the museum; there are also literary events and exhibitions.

The great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was one of the classics of the world literature. The literary and memorial museum located at the corner of Kuznechny Pereulok and Dostoevsky Street shows how the writer lived and wrote his books.

The life of Dostoevsky and his works are closely connected with St. Petersburg . He lived for twenty nine years in different apartment buildings of the city, and these places are still remembered as the places connected with the works of "the most St. Petersburgian" writer of the 19 th century. "Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg " is the city of slums and poor people, the miserable and the dying. This is one more image of the city – not an official image, but also an integral part of the existing idea of St. Petersburg.

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