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Prince Myshkin, too good for Petersburg society, and the woman two men destroy.

Three brothers, a murdered father and the Grand Inquisitor; Dostoevsky's last novel.

Dostoevsky's tense moral descent of a guilty student (1866).

A married woman, a cavalry officer and a train; "all happy families are alike".

A successful judge falls ill and works out, over three months of dying, that he lived the whole thing wrong.

Peter the Great’s "Russian Versailles" with its cascade of gilded fountains.

St Petersburg’s onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 m² of mosaic.

Three rooms of pine, built in three days in 1703; the first building in St Petersburg.