More about the St. Petersburg’s symbols in the novel “Crime and punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The article examines the semantic facets of St. Petersburg's symbolic image in the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The border semantic zones of the city shown by the writer join a complex plot-compositional connection with other elements of the narrative. Thus, F. Dostoevsky achieves a special concentricity in the description of the urban landscape, the interiors of the characters and their inner world. In addition, the author explores the intertextual connections of the novel with the famous theological work “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus.