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Article: Dostoevsky lives. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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- November 4, 1994
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The tea in Dostoevsky's glass is still brewed daily, as if it had to sustain him through a strenuous night of writing. Even the doorbell is unchanged since the time Dostoevsky would slowly climb the steep stairs to his second-floor apartment in Saint Petersburg, pausing for breath because of lung trouble. In the same street as the ocher-colored, four-story apartment block are the city's largest market and the Orthodox church he attended, reopened only in 1991 after being closed for decades.
In the apartment, the clock is stopped at 8:38 A.M., the moment on a January day in 1881 when Fyodor Dostoevsky died from a throat hemorrhage caused by emphysema. In Saint ...