Dostoevskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Dostojewskaja ( Russian Достоевская ) is a metro station of the Saint Petersburg Metro on line 4 . It is a transfer station in the center of the Russian metropolis of Saint Petersburg and was put into operation on December 30, 1991. The station is named in honor of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky , whose former apartment (now operated as a museum) is located near the subway station.
description
The underground station is 62 meters deep and can be reached from the street via an access vestibule. The latter is located in the southwestern area of Vladimir Square (Russian: Владимирская площадь ) at the mouth of the Sagorodny Prospect ( Загородный проспект ). Vladimir Square is located in the historical center of Saint Petersburg south of the avenue Nevsky Prospect , which can be reached on foot in a few minutes via Vladimir Prospect ( Владимирский проспект ). Just like the Dostoevsky Museum (which is, however, physically closer to the Vladimirskaya metro station), the banks of the Fontanka , for example, and the classical ensemble around the Alexandrinsky Theater via the Lomonossow Bridge can be reached quickly.
As is customary in the Petersburg metro system, the entrance vestibule is a separate building that was partially covered over by a new shopping center built in front of it in 2006, which has since provided a direct transition between the station and the ground floor of the center. The Dostoyevskaya platform can also be reached via the transition tunnel of the Vladimirskaya metro station on line 1 . This metro station, in the area of which lines 1 and 4 intersect, has its own access from the street, which is on the other side of Vladimir Square.
The counter hall inside the entrance vestibule of Dostoyevskaya is connected to the platform hall at its northern end by three long escalators , an intermediate level and several steps. The much shorter escalators from the opposite end of the platform lead into the transition tunnel to the Vladimirskaya station on Line 1. The unusually kinking course of this transition tunnel is due to difficulties in its construction in the early 1990s: Part of the corridor originally planned as a straight line had to be moved to the side as several buildings threatened to collapse at times directly above him.
The vestibule on Dostoyevskaya has only been open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays since 2000. During the rest of the operating time of the metro, the metro station can only be entered or exited via the Vladimirskaya station and the transition tunnel.
architecture
The platform hall is a construction of an island platform with two rows of pillars supporting the vault, which is common in the Petersburg metro system . Based on the name of the station and the work of the person who gave it its name, the hall was given a very original shape thanks to special decorative elements. whose authors were the architects AW Schuk and AD Tokman. Thus, the low-key lighting of the hall are with lamps for streets lanterns are stylized from the 19th century, the atmosphere of St. Petersburg, as it had been to Dostoevsky's time and was described in his particular early works frequently, very effective again. The arcade-like transitions between the supporting columns , which are reminiscent of some structures from Petersburg classicism, are also striking , but especially the decorative cast-iron grids, which were built into some of the arcades together with a bench. Both the columns and the outer walls above the tracks are clad with light to dark gray marble slabs, which, together with the consistently gray granite slabs of the floor, creates an ambience reminiscent of the often bleak perception of the Petersburg cityscape in Dostoyevsky's works. In the mezzanine level leading to the exit, where the three escalators to the counter hall begin, there is a wall mosaic that suggests a stylized image of old Petersburg (including the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral protruding from the row of houses ).
See also
literature
- ADErofeev, DSRatnikov: Peterburgskij metropoliten . Astrel-SPb, Saint Petersburg 2010, ISBN 978-5-17-070750-8
Web links
- Brief description on metro.vpeterburge.ru (Russian)
- Photos of the station (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 30 ° 20 ′ 45.3 ″ E