On October 29, 2010, the monument to the famous writer F. M. Dostoevsky was opened in Tobolsk. The author is the sculptor M. V. Pereyaslavets.

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich-a classic of Russian literature and one of the best novelists of world importance visited Tobolsk in 1850 on the way to hard labor in Omsk. The author of the novel “Poor People” (1845), who was convicted in the Petrashevtsev case, spent 12 days in the Tobolsk transit prison (from January 9 to January 20).

A bronze sculpture of Fyodor Mikhailovich, sitting on a bench next to an open Gospel, is installed near the building of the transit prison.

According to biographers, it was here in Tobolsk that an unforgettable event took place, which played a major role in the spiritual biography of Dostoevsky. The wives of the Decembrists Zh. A. Muravyov, P. E. Annenkov and N. D. Fonvizin achieved (“begged”, according to Dostoevsky) a secret meeting with the Petrashevites in the apartment of the caretaker of the transit prison. In the” Diary of a Writer ” for 1873, Dostoevsky recalled that during the meeting, everyone was dressed with the Gospel-the only book allowed in the prison.
The Tobolsk Gospel went through hard labor and soldiers ‘ barracks with Dostoevsky, it was near when Fyodor Mikhailovich returned to great literature, it is a witness and judge of his creative ups and downs. Currently, this copy of the Gospel with the writer’s notes is kept in the Russian State Library in Moscow.