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Not everything is grand palaces and golden fountains. Kimmy takes a “Dostoevsky Walking Tour” through the Sennaya Square area, where Crime and Punishment is set. Narrow canals, peeling yellow walls, gloomy courtyards. She stands outside Raskolnikov’s fictional apartment and feels the oppressive heat and moral weight Dostoevsky wrote about. It’s a side of St. Petersburg that isn’t postcard-perfect but feels achingly real.

Kimmy visits in late June, during the White Nights. The sun barely dips below the horizon. At 11 p.m., the sky is still a deep twilight blue. She joins locals on Palace Square for the Scarlet Sails festival—a massive celebration of school graduation. Fireworks explode over the Neva as a tall ship with crimson sails glides past. Kimmy, exhausted but euphoric, buys a pirozhok from a street vendor and eats it while swaying to street musicians covering Soviet-era rock songs.

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