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Raskolnikov's House  
   

Raskolnikov's House

Marker showing where Dostoevsky's main character in "Crime and Punishment" lived. They say you can count the steps from here to the door of the woman he eventually murders and it adds up to exactly what Dostoevsky wrote in the book (I didn't really read it and forgot the part that I did read).
A Blog in Two Parts (Part 2)

November 2nd 2010
Part 2 - Not with a bang but a whimper I had intended to write this second part on Sunday night when I wrote the first part, however I was so tired that I decided to go to sleep and write this entry the next day (Monday). I hadn't planned on meeting up with some friends at a bar chain called "SPB" (as St. Petersburg is called by the locals) and drinking 2 liters of beer! So here I am 2 days lat ... read more
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Russian Flag Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more
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