Hotel named after Dostoevsky’s prostitute

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A new hotel opened in the centre of St. Petersburg, it is first outlet in Russia of the Norwegian hotel chain Reval Hotels. A 173-room, the venue is rated as a four-star hotel according to the Russian hotel classification system.

The location is superb, it’s the very heart of the city’s center, just a stone’s throw from the main thoroughfare Nevsky prospect, sightseeings and so on. Address: Liteyny prospect, 5.

Detailed info about the hotel is here. What’s unusual about it is that the new accomodation is called by the name of one of the most famous characters in the Russian (and maybe in the world’s) literature, Sonya Marmeladova, a girl created by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which is likely to be the most well-known Russian writer beyond Russia’s borders. His novel “Crime and Punishment” is a brilliant in the crown of the world’s literature. Sonya Marmeladova, whose life conditions forced her to sell herself,  became a symbol of self-sacrifice.

The core action of the novel took place in St. Petersburg (as many of Dostoevsky’s novels), not far from the place where the hotel is located.

It’s rather notable that if you go along the Liteyny prospect, cross the Nevsky prospect and get into another street called the Vladimirsky prospect, in 10 minutes you will run into the metro station called Dostoevskaya. And about 100 meters before reaching the station you will pass by the hotel called Dostoevsky. And it’s about at the same site where the hotel The Brothers Karamozov is!

Who are these guys, these brothers? It’s the title of maybe the most serious novel of Dostoevsky.

What is common for all these Dostoevsky-related hotels is that they all are within 10-20 minutes walking ftom Nevsky prospect and 30-minute-walking from the Hermitage.