The Unknown Dostoevsky

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Authors: Marina V. Zavarkina, Tatiana V. Panyukova

The article investigates some cases of incorrect reading of the notes in the copy-book of F. M. Dostoevsky (December 1865 — October 1867), for the first time published in 1931 under the editorship of P. N. Sakulin and N. F. Belchikov, and next in the Complete works of the writer (Nauka publ., 1972-1990). Among the reading errors there are omissions of the creative notes and their incorrect attribution (the given copy-book contains the notes to two literary writings at once: the novels "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot"; to the writer’s uncompleted conceptions, and it also comprises calculations, calligraphy etc). As it follows from the article, the reading errors mostly occurred due to the lack of knowledge of the peculiarities of pre-revolutionary spelling and inability to distinguish the writer’s drawings. All the examples analyzed in the article are provided with the photos of the manuscript that allows us to visualize the reading errors in the given publications.

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Authors: Feodor M. Dostoevsky

Preparation of the text and publication - O. A. Sosnovskaya and I. S. Andrianova

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Authors: Irina S. Andrianova

N. N. Strakhov, who was close to the Dostoevsky family, proved to be a slanderer after the writer’s death having insulted the memory of the writer in his letter to L.N. Tolstoy of November 28, 1883. This document was published 30 years later – in 1913 in the magazine "The Modern world" (№ 10), when both Dostoevsky and the correspondents had already died. It was Dostoevsky’s widow who defended her husband’s memory against Strakhov’s accusations. During the second half of 1914 and 1915 A.G. Dostoevskaya was preparing a protest she was going to publish. She was collecting signatures of the famous contemporaries who had known the writer well and were able to refute the slander. Andrei Andreevich Dostoevsky, the writer’s nephew, helped her to prepare the protest. Seven letters of Anna G. Dostoevskaya to Andrei A. Dostoevsky concerning their joint activity are for the first time published in the appendix to this article. The writer’s widow did not publish her protest. She gave a response to the descendants and admirers of Dostoevsky’s works in her memoirs that were published according to her will only after her death.