Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky, The Man Behind: Memoirs, Letters & Autobiographical Works
Correspondence, Diary & Autobiographical Novels
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0124-2
Table of Contents
BIOGRAPHY:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky
LETTERS AND MEMOIRS:
Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to his Family and Friends
Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS:
BIOGRAPHY:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky
I ORIGIN OF THE DOSTOYEVSKY FAMILY
II THE CHILDHOOD OF FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
VII WHAT THE CONVICTS TAUGHT DOSTOYEVSKY
IX DOSTOYEVSKY'S FIRST MARRIAGE
XII DOSTOYEVSKY AS HEAD OF HIS FAMILY
XIII MY mother's family AND ITS ORIGIN
XVI DOSTOYEVSKY's second MARRIAGE
XVII TRAVELS IN EUROPE : FIRST PART
XVIII TRAVELS IN EUROPE : SECOND PART
XXI " THE JOURNAL OF THE WRITER "
XXVI DOSTOYEVSKY THE SLAVOPHIL
XXVII COUNTESS ALEXIS TOLSTOY'S SALON
XXIX THE LAST YEAR OF DOSTOYEVSKY'S LIFE
PREFACE
Russia was preparing to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky on October 30, 1921. Our writers and poets hoped to do honour in prose and verse to the great Russian noveUst; the Slav peoples had arranged to send deputations to Petrograd, to pay their homage in Czech, Serbian and Bulgarian to the great Slavophil, who was ever faithful to the idea of our future Slav confederation. The Dostoyevsky family, in its turn, proposed to mark the occasion by publishing the documents preserved in the Historical Museum of Moscow. My mother was to have given the world her memories of her illustrious husband, and I was to have written a new biography of my father, and to have recorded my childish impressions of him.
It is unlikely that any such festival will take place. A terrible storm has passed over Russia, destroying the whole fabric of our European civilisation. The Revolution, long ago predicted by Dostoyevsky, burst upon us after a disastrous war. The gulf which for two centuries had been widening between our peasants and our intellectuals, became an abyss. Our intellectuals,