Stranded in Wiesbaden after gambling losses
· Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Dostoyevsky wrote from Wiesbaden that he had lost his winnings and lacked the money to leave, while beginning work that developed into Crime and Punishment. The letter is headed 24 August Old Style/5 September 1865 New Style and explicitly dated from Wiesbaden.
