Society and culture: “Day of Dostoevsky” in Saint-Petersburg

July 4, 2015 held "Day of Dostoevsky", the main event of the Year of Literature in St. Petersburg.

The unusual literary festival is traditionally attended by many museums, theaters and libraries. This year the main platforms of the festival will be the Nevsky Prospekt, the Manezh Square and the Malaya Konyushennaya Street.

The accent of the holiday will be the 150th anniversary of the novel "Crime and Punishment". On the Manezh Square can be viewed adaptation of this novel (director - D. Svetozarov, 2007). And in the window of a bookstore "BUKVOED" on Nevsky, 46, everyone can take part in the "people's reading" of the first edition of "Crime and Punishment", impress themselves among the characters of the novel and get a rare commemorative postcard.

It also starts the program of a popular program "Youth - Dostoevsky". On the Nevsky Prospekt, near the Vladimir and the Sennaya squares young "lovers of Dostoevsky" willing to spend on the address associated with the life and work of Dostoevsky.

On the Vladimir Square near the monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky Literary flash mob will be held. At the same time on the Nevsky Prospect, the Malaya Konyushennaya and the Manezh Square will appear writers and literary heroes.