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Grand Hotel Europe, Saint Petersburg (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)

Mikhailovskaya St., 1/7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a frequent guest of the hotel. In the archives, a quote from Fyodor Mikhailovich regarding the unprecedented scale of the hotel's construction has been preserved: "... this is the architecture of a modern, huge hotel – this is already businesslike, Americanism, hundreds of rooms, a huge industrial enterprise."
St. Petersburg of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a frequent guest of the hotel. In the archives, there is a quote from Fyodor Mikhailovich regarding the unprecedented scale of the hotel’s construction: “... here is the architecture of a modern, huge hotel — this is already businesslike, Americanism, hundreds of rooms, a huge industrial enterprise.”

The writer stayed in the corner room 107, with windows overlooking the intersection of Italian and Mikhailovskaya streets. Dostoevsky preferred corner rooms because they are perfect for observing what is happening around, and he often placed his characters in such rooms. To this day, a massive writing desk stands in the “Dostoevsky” suite, behind which one can look out the window onto the street, just as the writer himself liked to do while working.

Learn more about the hotel here: https://reveal.world/story/grand-otel-evropa

Sources:

https://www.sobaka.ru/photo/heroes/102872

http://prohotelia.com/2016/04/hotels-where-famous-writers-lived-and-wrote/

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