Dostoyevskaya (Moscow Metro)

Platform hall

entrance

Dostoyevskaya ( Russian Достоевская ) is an underground subway station of the Moscow Metro on line 10 ( Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line ). It was opened on June 19, 2010 as part of the extension of this line by two stations to the north.

general description

The Dostoevskaya Metro Station is located in the north of the county center of Moscow , under the Suvorov -sites for the district Meshchansky . The station is named after the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky , who was born near today's Suvorov Square. The underground station currently has access via a pedestrian underpass under Suworow Square. This underpass leads to the ticket hall and from there via escalators and a flight of stairs to the platform hall at its northern end.

The station does not have any transfer options for the time being. However, it was designed from the outset as a transition station to the ring line of the Moscow Metro ( Kolzewaja Line ), as this crosses with Line 10 in the area of Dostoyevskaya. The construction of the future ring line station Ploshchad Suvorova , from which there should be a transition to Dostoyevskaya, is not expected to take place until after 2013, especially if line 10 is extended further north.

layout

Similar to the other Moscow metro stations, which are named after famous poets (see Pushkinskaya , Chekhovskaya, etc.), the life and work of its namesake is also in the foreground in the architectural design of the Dostoyevskaya. At the transition from the escalators to the platform hall, on the wall of the mezzanine level, a mosaic -like portrait of Dostoyevsky with a rather gloomy motif can be seen carved into the marble . If you walk down the stairs from there, you get directly to the platform hall, which consists of a central platform separated by two rows of pylons in the longitudinal direction. Both the pylons and the walls are clad in marble with light and dark gray tones. The vault is painted white and has a semicircular shape with two symmetrical rows of circular candlestick niches. The floor is made of light gray and light brown granite slabs without a pattern.

On four pylons on the side of the central part of the hall there are pictorial compositions carved in marble, each of which depicts prominent motifs from one of Dostoyevsky's four most important literary works - Guilt and Atonement , The Idiot , The Demons and The Karamazov Brothers . The author of the pictures is Ivan Nikolayev, who created them in the early planning phase of the station in the early 1990s. Shortly before the opening of the underground station, the mosaics caused controversial reactions in the press, as they also contain scenes of murder and suicide . The picture for the novel Schuld und Atonement shows its protagonist Raskolnikow, who is about to kill the old pawnbroker and her sister with an ax. In this context, some psychologists argued that the mosaics were too glorifying of violence and could encourage particularly depressed people to commit suicide.

Originally, the section of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line with the Dostoyevskaya and Marjina Roschtscha stations was to be inaugurated on May 15, 2010 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Moscow Metro. Some journalists attributed the delay of a good month, which was in reality technically-related, to the controversy surrounding the mosaics.