In Search of Champions in a “Frog Pond” and Something about Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg

Abstract

The material is dedicated to clarifying the structure of the publication Dostoevsky and World Culture: Philological journal, the article by Ekaterina Mochalova, “Dostoevsky’s Petersburg through the Eyes of a Contemporary Schoolgirl,” published in the issue no. 1 (21) of 2023, the response by B.N. Tikhomirov to it, and the issue of topographical accuracy in Dostoevsky’s “Petersburg” novels.

Keywords

• dostoevsky’s peterburg
• topographical accuracy in a literary text
• structure of the journal dostoevsky and world culture: philological journal
• section “young readings in staraya russa.”