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Photographer: Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images
Photographer: Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images

Dostoyevsky's Prison: Locked Up in Siberia

A Siberian prison that once counted novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky among its inmates has opened its doors to the public for the first time. The Prison Castle, in Tobolsk, Russia, was built between 1838 and 1855 and closed in 1989. Tourists can now stay in a hostel that used to be a block of punishment cells. Photographer: Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images