The Courtyard - Crimen y Castigo (sitios de interés)
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This courtyard, off of the square onto which Voznesensky Prospect opens, is the location of the rock under which Raskolnikov stashed the trinkets he had stolen from the pawnbroker. He had been headed from Ekaterininsky Canal up Voznesensky Prospect to the Neva, to cast the items into the water, but this courtyard, with its whitewashed walls and sooty stone shed, seemed perfect to him.
"coming out from the V-y Prospect to the square, he saw on his left the entrance to a courtyard, surrounded by completely blank walls. To the right, immediately inside the gateway, the blank, unwhitewashed wall of the four-storied house next door stretched back deep into the yard. To the left, parallel to the blind wall, and also just beyond the gate, a wooden fence extended about twenty paces into the yard and only then broke to the left. This was a fenced-off, out-of-the-way spot where some materials were lying about. Deeper into the yard, from behind the fence, the angle of a low, sooty stone shed peeked out-evidently part of some workshop. It was probably a carriage-maker"s or a metalworker"s shop, or something of the sort; everything, starting almost from the gate, was covered with black coal dust. "Why not abandon it here and go away!" suddenly crossed his mind. Not noticing anyone in the yard, he stepped through the gate and saw, just inside, a trough set up next to the fence (such as one often finds in places where there are many factory workers, teamsters, coachmen, and so on), and written in chalk on the fence above the trough was the inevitable witticism in such circumstances: "NO LOIDERING HEAR." That was already a good thing; it meant there would be nothing suspicious about his going in and loitering. "Just dump it all in a heap somewhere, and get out!" " (pg.108, Crime and Punishment, Pevear and Volokhonsky Translation.)
Image taken from: http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/dostoevsky/rutr/c-and-p.html, picture by Julian Connolly