Location Story...Capturing the decrepit grandeur of St Petersburg

Where many productions have wimped out, the BBC took the plunge and chose to spend three weeks shooting Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in St Petersburg. 'Everybody said no, don't go

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