The Unknown Dostoevsky

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Authors: Sergey A. Kibalnik

The article presents a web portal of the Pushkin House "Russian writers of the 1860s and 1880s in the unremembered memoirs, notebooks and diaries". A range of materials on this topic is placed here: 1) books of memoirs by S. А. Bers, P. А. Gnedich, G. К. Gradovsky, D. V. Grigorovich, А. G. Dostoevskaya, А. F. Koni, V. G. Korolenko, А. Leskov, V. P. Meshchersky, I. I. Panaev, L. F. Panteleev, А. А. Pleshcheev, М. К. Saltykov, S. L. Tolstoy, А. P. Suslova, N. А. Tuchkova-Ogaryova, N. V. Uspensky, А. А. Fet, Е. А. Shtakenshneider, V. Mikulich, I. I. Yasinsky and others (the books of V. Mikulich and I. I. Yasinsky are provided with new and quite detailed comments by B. N. Tikhomirov); 2) certain magazine and newspaper essays some of which, for instance by D. N. Sadovnikov, N. M. Pavlov, P. Raisky (I. I. Kolyshko), F. P. Chuffrin and N. Milyaev, are accompanied by detailed textual and historical literary comments; 3) a complete text of the "Memoirs about Dostoevsky" by А. I. Suvorina with comments them by S. A. Kibalnik; 4) memorial essays on Dostoevsky by А. А. Zelenetsky and L. V. Golovina (they are published by S. А. Kibalnik based on the manuscripts of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published before according to other lists); 4) the article of V. A. Savostyanova "In counterpart to Anna Grigirievna Dostoevskaya’s memoirs" is placed according to a version that has never been reproduced before (text processing and comments belong by B. N. Tikhomirov); 5) a range of manuscript materials referring to the biography and art of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, K. N. Leontiev and A. P. Chekhov is published for the first time.

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Authors: Irina S. Andrianova

After F. M. Dostoevsky’s death his widow Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya became a gatherer and a keeper of the writer’s private archive and of other papers referred to his name. She took care of this collection for their descendants’ good and kept enlarging it till the day she died. Along with this, the Dostoevsky archive that has come down to us contains manuscripts revised by his widow. This refers to Dostoevsky’s letters to her. The article analyses certain corrections made by Anna Dostoevskaya in the letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky addressed to her. The article aims at specifying the initial text of Dostoevsky’s letters written to his wife in 1873, by means of reading the crossed out words and lines in the text, and defining the prospects of future textual studies of the manuscripts. Transcribing process was realized by using traditional (visual) methods of text reading and analysis. The purpose of the article is to explore the reasons that had encouraged the writer’s widow to serve as an editor and a censor of Dostoevsky’s letters. The archive materials were used when preparing the article, among others the papers unknown to the academic community (copies of the letters of Dostoevsky to his wife and her remarks to those letters).

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Authors: Boris N. Tikhomirov

The Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House contains a page of miscellaneous sketches unreasonably attributed in the academic literature to the novels "Crime and Punishment" or "The Brothers Karamazov". The article’s author suggests attributing the above-noted sketches to the novel "Demons" and refers them to March and June of 1872. The portrait of a young girl in the inferior part of the page is considered as a probable author’s depiction of Liza Tushina.

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Authors: Boris N. Tikhomirov

Attributions of some portrait sketches made by Dostoevsky in his artistic manuscripts are implemented in the article. The writer’s early graphical self portrait is depicted on the margins of the so called "Siberian notebook", the portrait sketches of Voltaire and Shakespeare are attributed. The method of visual argumentation using the known graphical and sculptural portraits of attributed historical figures is applied.

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Authors: Liubov V. Alekseeva

The article is dedicated to one of the major problems existing in textual studies of epistolary heritage of Fyodor Dostoevsky and his addressees - the problem of attribution of anonymous or unknown persons F.M. Dostoevsky used to correspond with. This issue remains essential nowadays despite the fact that F.M. Dostoevsky’s personality and activity are well studied. In the article, the author poses the problems any researcher has to face while trying to attribute the letters. However, by the example of certain letters it is shown that in spite of such difficulties it turns out to be possible sometimes to reveal anonymous, unknown addressees of the writer.

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Authors: Klavdia V. Sizyukhina

The article is aimed at presenting the most interesting fragments of the diaries of Andrei Mikhailovich Dostoevsky that will help readers see familiar personalia of the Dostoevskys’ family patrimonial chronicle in a new light. The diaries contain portrait sketches of F. M. Dostoevsky, V. M. Dostoevskaya, A. M. Dostoevskaya, A. G. Dostoevskaya, L. F. Dostoevskaya etc. Psychological observations made by the author in respect of his nearest and dearest convert a private family chronotope of the diary narration into a patrimonial one: based on his own family history Andrei Mikhailovich depicts the life of the Dostoevsky dynasty as a whole. References to personalities never before mentioned in encyclopedic documents dedicated to analysis of the Dostoevsky family tree will be of some interest to a reader too. In particular, the name of a certain Anna Dostoevskaya appears for the first time in one of the diary extracts.