The head of state left an entry in the book of honorary guests in the renovated Dostoevsky museum-apartment.
“Many thanks to the organizers and devotees for preserving the memory of FM Dostoevsky, a genius thinker and patriot of Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes Putin's record.
Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova took the president on a tour of the halls and told about the life of Dostoevsky.
The Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821.
Among his most famous works are the novels The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and Demons, which have become classics of world literature.
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