CITY · RUSSIABooks set in Saint Petersburg
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20 books · 13 authors · 1833–2015
20 books here
Most-set authors
Fyodor Dostoevsky (6) · Alexander Pushkin (3) · Juhea Kim (1) · David Benioff (1) · Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1) · Mikheil Javakhishvili (1)
Genres
literary fiction (12) · historical fiction (2)
Books set here
Set in Saint Petersburg (17)
City of Nightbirds
Juhea Kim
Contemporary Russian ballet world, White Nights
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Siege of Leningrad backdrop
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
Onegin society life opens here
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Underground Man lives here
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
St. Petersburg; nobleman Oblomov lies in his apartment daydreaming, the embodiment of the 19th-century 'superfluous man'
Petersburg
Andrei Bely
city itself a character, 1905 uprising
Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tenements and canals of 19th-century St. Petersburg; slum setting
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky
St. Petersburg; illegitimate Arkady Dolgoruky moves from the country to confront his aristocratic father Versilov in the
The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin
Neva flood devastates the city
The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
bureaucratic St. Petersburg setting
The Eternal Husband
Fyodor Dostoevsky
19th-century St. Petersburg setting for the psychological drama between Velchaninov and Trusotsky
The Madonnas of Leningrad
Debra Dean
Wartime setting — Siege of Leningrad
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
clerk Akaky lives and works here
The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin
Hermann's gambling obsession
The Siege
Helen Dunmore
Siege of Leningrad, September 1941, WWII survival
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
bridge where Raskolnikov views the city panorama
Notable locations in Saint Petersburg
Blagoveshchensky Bridge (Nikolaevsky Bridge)1Griboedov Canal Embankment1Raskolnikov's House, Stolyarny Lane1Senate Square1Sennaya Ploshchad (Haymarket Square)1Sonya Marmeladova's House, Griboedov Canal1Voznesensky Bridge1
Nearby books
City of Ghosts
Ben Creed
0 km · Leningrad
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
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The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky
0 km · Saint Petersburg
Us Conductors
Sean Michaels
0 km · Leningrad
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 km · Sennaya Ploshchad (Haymarket Square)
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1 km · St. Petersburg
Night Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko
1 km · St. Petersburg
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 km · St. Petersburg canals and embankments