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Abstract:

Since the creation of the Dostoevsky Museum in Moscow and throughout its nearly century-long history, the novel Crime and Punishment has been consistently present in its exhibitions, gradually taking a leading place among them. In 2021, the Dostoevsky House Museum opened in Moscow as part of the V.I. Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature. In the new exhibition, the novel is presented from different perspectives in several exhibition halls. A special exhibition has been organized as an independent “museum within a museum”—The Museum of the Novel Crime and Punishment. The materials from the exhibition can be used in various ways by literature teachers when studying the novel at school. The article consists of two parts. The first part presents the history of the novel’s representation in the exhibitions of the Dostoevsky Museum and in the space of the museum center, Dostoevsky House Museum in Moscow. The second part offers several methodological developments for classes on the novel Crime and Punishment held at the museum center. Among them are: a lesson in the thematic hall “Museum of the Novel Crime and Punishment,” an interactive lesson in the author’s hall by Mikhail Shemyakin, Raskolnikov’s Obsessions, and individual project assignments on the topics “The Novel Crime and Punishment in Translations into Foreign Languages” and “Film Adaptations of the Novel Crime and Punishment.” The use of museum exhibit materials in the process of studying Dostoevsky’s novel helps students to more effectively master its content.

Keywords: Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky House-Museum, school studies, methodological recommendations.