St. Petersburg addresses of Nikolai Strakhov

The article provides an overview of the St. Petersburg addresses of the philosopher, literary critic and publicist Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov (1828-1896), one of the closest people to Dostoevsky in the 1860s and 1870s, the author of the first posthumous biography of the writer. Based on memoir literature, correspondence, official documents based on address books, report cards of houses, atlases of St. Petersburg, other reference literature of the XIX century. The article describes the residence addresses of the thinker since September 1844, when he arrived in the Northern capital from Kostroma, until the day of his death on January 24, 1896. In addition to the places of residence, the addresses of educational institutions (St. Petersburg Imperial University, the Main Pedagogical Institute) and Strakhov's places of service (the 2nd St. Petersburg Men's Gymnasium, the Imperial Public Library, the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of National Education, the Committee of Foreign Censorship) are taken into account; addresses where editorial circles of “Svetoch” magazines gathered with the active participation of Strakhov, "Vremya", "Epokha", "Zarya". In all cases, both historical addresses (including the names of the homeowners) and their location on the map of modern St. Petersburg are indicated.