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Books set in Saint Petersburg, and books written there · Terra Lecta

Saint Petersburg

Russia

12 books set in Saint Petersburg, 1 book written there and 7 writers who were born, lived or died there.

Saint Petersburg, 1860, at the time of Crime and Punishment. Joseph-Maria Charlemagne-Baudet, Public domain

Books set in Saint Petersburg

Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1864
The OvercoatNikolai Gogol, AD 1842
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1866
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, AD 1877

White NightsFyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1848

The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, AD 1886

The DoubleFyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1846

The NoseNikolai Gogol, AD 1836

War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, AD 1869

The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1869

Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin, AD 1825

More books set in and around Saint Petersburg

The Bronze HorsemanAlexander Pushkin, AD 1837At Bronze Horseman

Books written in Saint Petersburg

The NoseNikolai Gogol, AD 1836

Writers of Saint Petersburg

Vladimir NabokovBorn and lived here, AD 1899–1917
Fyodor DostoyevskyDied here
Ivan TurgenevLived here
Alexander PushkinDied and lived here
Nikolai LeskovDied here
Maxim GorkyLived here
Ivan GoncharovDied here