"It was a tiny cell, about six steps long, which had the most pitiful appearance with its yellow, dusty wallpaper that had fallen off the wall everywhere, and was so low that a slightly tall person felt creepy in it, and it seemed that you were about to knock your head on the ceiling". This is the way Fyodor Mikhailovich describes a room in the attic of a house on the corner of Stolyarny Lane and Grazhdanskaya Street, where Rodion Raskolnikov lived.

This house, also known as the house of Joachim, was built in 1831 by the architect Egor Zollikofer in the style of classicism. Now the house does not look like it did in Dostoevsky’s time: in 1970, as a result of major repairs, the basement was eliminated, and the house turned from a five-story (as in the novel) into a four-story one, and the paving stones in the courtyard were asphalted.

Two marble plaques in Russian and German are installed on the wall, marking the water level during the flood on November 7, 1824.

A high relief made of bronze and granite was installed on the corner of the Raskolnikov House in 1999. On the granite slab of the high relief there is a text written by Dmitry Likhachev and Daniil Granin: "Raskolnikov's House. The tragic fates of the people of this area of St. Petersburg served Dostoevsky as the basis for his passionate preaching of good for all mankind."