Crime and Punishment. Collectible illustrated publication. Dostoevsky F.M.

“Crime and Punishment” is one of the most significant works in the history of world literature. Roman Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky poses to the reader the most important moral and worldview issues-about faith, conscience, sin and redeeming through suffering. Conceived as a “psychological report of one crime”, Dostoevsky’s novel appeared before the reader of a grand artic-philosophical study of human nature, a Christian tragedy of the death and resurrection of the soul.

The religious, social and philosophical symbolism of the immortal work was revealed in this collection publication.. The biography of Fyodor Mikhailovich is described, about the history of the creation of a worldwide masterpiece. Reliable facts from the detective affairs of pre -revolutionary Russia are given.

The most interesting events created by Dostoevsky of the philosophical polyphonic novel here are intertwined with the real life of people and transferred to the streets of the beautiful city of the planet. The book contains rare species of St. Petersburg taken at the very beginning of the appearance of photography in Russia, in the second half of the 19th century. The documentary evidence of that time is no less interesting.

Work on additional materials was performed with the assistance of employees of the F.M. Museum-Quarter Dostoevsky.