The Pawnbroker"s - Crimen y Castigo (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
104 Griboedova Canal: the scene of Raskolnikov"s murder of Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta Ivanovna:
"The small room into which the young man walked, with yellow wallpaper, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was at that moment brightly lit by the setting sun. "So the sun will be shining the same way then!..." flashed as if haphazardly through Raskolnikov"s mind, and with a quick glance he took in everything in the room, in order to study and remember the layout as well as possible. But there was nothing special in the room. The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge, curved wooden back, a round table of an oval shape in front of the sofa, a dressing table with a mirror between the windows, chairs against the walls, and two or three halfpenny prints in yellow frames portraying German damsels with birds in their hands- that was all the furniture there was. In the corner, an oil lamp was burning in front of a small icon. Everything was very clean: both furniture and floor were polished to a high lustre; everything shone. "Lizaveta"s work," the young man thought. There was not a speck of dust to be found in the whole apartment. "It"s wicked old widows who keep everything so clean," Raskolnikov continued to himself, and he cast a curious sidelong glance at the cotton curtain hanging in the doorway to the second tiny room, where the old woman"s bed and chest of drawers stood, and where he had not yet peeked even once. The whole apartment consisted of these two rooms." (pgs. 7-8, 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