Grand Hotel Europe — St. Petersburg, Russia
About Grand Hotel Europe
Dostoevsky was happy in the hotel's grand rooms. Their spacious digs gave him the opportunity to look out from the corner suites at the street that would go on to play an outsized role in Crime and Punishment. George Bernard Shaw met Maxim Gorky in a private dining room here. H.G. Wells took a room here, too. They moved among political guests like Rasputin, who dined here often, to elite composers. The Belle Étage (the first floor) is where you'll find the historical, one-bedroom suites, with period furniture and street-gazing over the Arts Square. And the Dostoevsky Suite in particular styles itself as a spacious writer's salon with a weighty desk at its center, looking out over the street as if poised to write about the action. The real Dostoevsky? He stayed in room 107 (which is consistent with the corner/Arts Square location of the current suite).
Literary significance
The Dostoevsky Suite is themed, with an oil portrait, grand desk, clippings and photographs, and period touches.
Authors
Location
Mikhaylovskaya Street 1/7, St Petersburg 191186, Russia