No, that’s not the sound of Fyodor Dostoevsky rolling in his grave; they’re just drilling tunnels 200 feet below the 19th-century writer’s historical childhood street. By 2010, Moscow will have a new author-themed metro station—Dostoevskaya—whose interior design might very well send depressives scouring their pockets for extra Zoloft.

The station will feature a black, white, and grey color scheme adorning scenes from the novelist's major works. Time will tell which exact scenes will be depicted—the psychotic breakdowns of Crime And Punishment? The themes of patricide from The Brothers Karamazov? Any scene from Notes From the Underground? Who knows, but whatever is chosen will be an improvement on the disappointing Chekhovskaya stop, where some bland, pastoral images do nothing to evoke Chekhov's works.

Dostoevsky, whose other ceremonial role in Moscow is to sit outside the library looking bummed out, does not exactly brighten the morning commute. Fortunately, the station will feature some flamboyant touches, including florentine mosaics, marbled walls and granite columns. But how will they handle the planned Dostoyevsky portrait panel? Will they sanitize it, as the Soviets did to Gogol? Or will they leave him as he was, in all his brooding glory? Serotonin levels: prepare for landing.

New metro station to open in Moscow: Dostoevsky’s world is 60 meters deep[RIA Novosti]
Metro monument to great writer[Moscow News]