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      🏛 Pawnbroker's House

      Средняя Подьяческая ул., 15 / наб. канала Грибоедова, 104

      An apartment building that researchers consider the prototype of Alyona Ivanovna's house in Crime and Punishment: from "Raskolnikov's house" it is exactly those 730 steps.

      Pawnbroker's House
      © Sbarichev · Public domain
      • The house with two courtyards was built in 1800 by the manufacturer Ivan Walch.
      • In 1833 the house was raised to four storeys (five on the Podyacheskaya side) to a design by architect Liderits.
      • The search for the house seems to have been begun by the local historian Nikolai Antsiferov in his 1923 book Dostoevsky's Petersburg.
      • There are other versions of the old woman's address too — for example, the corner house at Kazanskaya 26 on the Griboedov Canal.
      • In the novel Alyona Ivanovna's flat is on the fourth floor, with the staircase entrance "right now from the gate, on the right".
      • The abbreviations in the novel were decoded in 1907 by Anna Dostoevskaya: "S— Lane" is Stolyarny, "K— Bridge" is Kokushkin.

      Part of these routes

      • Dostoevsky's Petersburg: the long route
      • Griboedov Canal: from the Savior to the Seven Bridges
      • Raskolnikov's House, 730 Steps and Lion Bridge
      • Seven Bridges and Major Kovalev's Nose

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