The Unknown Dostoevsky

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Authors: Liubov V. Alekseeva

The article presents a brief overview of existing researches dedicated to the problem of authorship, that is one of the major focuses of text studies, namely the attribution of anonymous and pseudonymous articles published in "The Time" and "The Epoch" magazines and in the weekly journal "Grazhdanin" ("The Citizen"). The issue of their attribution to F. M. Dostoevsky has been occupying the minds of the researches since the beginning of the 20th century and is still unsolved despite the fact that so much has been done in this domain, methods of text attribution have been elaborated and some attempts at establishing the authorship of articles were a success. By publishing this overview, the editorial board starts discussion on the problems of magazine and newspaper articles attribution whose authorship is ascribed or should be ascribed to Dostoevsky.

21-27

Authors: Vladimir A. Viktorovich

Preparation of the text - V. A. Viktorovich

34-39

Authors: Anna V. Indzinskaya

Elena Andreevna Shtakenshneyder (1836—1897), a hostess of the Literary and Art Salon in Saint Petersburg in the 1870s and early 1880s, kept a diary most of her life and exchanged letters with many famous contemporaries, for example with the Dostoevsky spouses. Friendship between E. A. Shtakenshneyder and the Dostoevsky family was witnessed in her diaries, reminiscences and fourteen letters, among which are those of F. M. Dostoevsky to E. A. Shtakenshneyder (2), E. A. Shtakenshneyder to F. M. Dostoevsky (3), E. A. Shtakenshneyder to A. G. Dostoevskaya (8), A. G. Dostoevskaya to E. A. Shtakenshneyder (1). The correspondence between Е. А. Shtakenshneyder and А. G. Dostoevskaya shows them not only as significant persons for F. M. Dostoevsky but as great workers in maintenance of Russian cultural heritage. Fragments of three letters of Е. А. Shtakenshneyder to А. G. Dostoevskaya were published in "The Literary Heritage", Vol.86 (Moscow, 1973). But their complete correspondence is published for the first time.

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Authors: Sergey A.Kibalnik

The chapters VII–Х of the second part of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot" are usually considered in the context of the writer’s disagreement with the ideas of positivism. Whereas they are primarily directed against philosophic anarchism: actually against "social anarchism" by Pierre-joseph Proudhon and implicitly against "individualistic anarchism" by Max Stirner. In that regard the facts of Stirner’s biography are cryptographically depicted in the story of Ganya Ivolgin about Antip Burdovsky’s father’s destiny. In the novel "The Idiot" the motives of anarchism manifest themselves rather than philosophic positivism in relation to Burdovsky and Co. Intertextuality in these chapters appears not only by means of allusions to the ideas of European and Russian anarchism, contained in the statements of certain characters, but also through the details of the origins of one of them In such a way internal ties of characters of "The Idiot", defined by Lebedev as "some consequence of nihilism", are asserted with the ideas of anarchism rather than with those of positivism.

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Authors: Natalja A. Tarasova

The article is dedicate to the textual research of draft manuscripts of the novel "A Raw Youth" and the problem of omissions of the author’s text when published. Analysis of these omissions gives an opportunity to define their origins, and thus, challenging fragments in the draft manuscripts. As a result, this kind of errors in reading the author’s text becomes possible when working with such manuscripts. The most common reasons for these omissions are a particular position of the notes on the page (a marginal character of the notes) and numerous, sometimes hard-to-read author’s corrections (above all, strikethrough texts and insertions). Consequently, the text fragments omitted by the researchers are not published till now. Their analysis enables to represent the author’s text in full, determine the meaning of the omitted fragments in the artistic context of the novel manuscripts and their correspondence to the draft and final text of the literary work.

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Authors: Elena A. Fedorova, Irina S. Andrianova

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: Boris N. Tikhomirov

The article describes a range of publications Dostoevsky read during his detention in the Peter and Paul Fortress from April until December 1849. A list of the books and periodicals was reconstructed on the basis of the letter exchange between the writer and his brothers – Andrei and mainly Mikhail. The indexes of the National Library of Russia as well as "A systematic list of Russian books from 1831 to 1846" by M. D. Olkhin were used for the reconstruction. All the books were looked through de visu. The form of description copies that one applied by the coauthors of the collective monograph "The library of F. M. Dostoevsky: experience of reconstruction. Scientific description" (St.Petersburg, 2005). The content of miscellany books and multi-volume editions is extremely detailed that gives an idea of life events, historical circumstances, literary subjects and so on, which occurred within sight of Dostoevsky as a reader.

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Authors: Anna G. Dostoevskaya

Publication and notes - I.S. Andrianova

2

Authors: Feodor M. Dostoevsky

Preparation of the text by Elena N.Vyal, notes by Oksana. A. Sosnovskaya

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Authors: N. D. Fonvizina,F. M. Dostoevsky

Preparation of the text and publication - E. N. Vyal, notes - I. Andrianova

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Authors: Vladimir N. Zakharov

Dostoevsky stayed in Tobolsk from January 9th till January 20th of 1850. It was here where the wives of the Decembrists gave him and other members of the Conspiracy of Petrashevsky the Gospel that became a source of his speculations and inspirations. The reminiscence of this event became a literary fact that found expression in documents, epistolary exchanges, memoirs and literary texts. Later recollections, narratives and interpretations comprise various inaccuracies, mistakes, errors and omissions which do not correspond to the facts. The article provides a critical analysis of sources, substantiates the facts and chronology of Dostoevsky’s stay in the Tobolsk prison castle. In his memoirs the writer revealed a symbolic meaning of the historic meeting between the Decembrists and the Petrashevtsy but he did not tell what it was like. The course of the event may be traced basing on N.D. Fonvizina’s letter of May 18-22, 1850 to I.A. Fonvizin. A "Secrete rendezvous" could have occurred on January 15, while the books with money in their covers could have been handed over on any of the days from January 16th till January 19th. As it appears from the letter of Natalia Dmitrievna Gendarme Captain Smolkov whom she involved in the tendance of the prisoners delivered the books and unveiled a secret of their covers to each prisoner. Nobody refused aid: Christian affection and mercy consolidated different people, were above suspicion and aroused human compassion and solidarity. It appears that there was no Gospel presenting ceremony that one can imagine when reading "A Writer’s Diary" of 1873. In this episode Dostoevsky created an image, emblem, picture that was essentially true but whose some factual aspects differed. It resulted in a symbolic scene that embodies specific traits of creative mind and poetics of Dostoevsky.

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Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nicolai Wagner, Anna Dostoevskaya

Preparation of the text and publication by E. N. Vyal, O. V. Zakharova, O. A. Sosnovskaya; notes - O. A. Sosnovskaya

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Authors: Elena N. Vyal

A reader’s letter V.I. Nikolsky to the author reveals one of the aspects of F.M. Dostoevsky’s creative work, that is when an admirer and a fellow-thinker keenly reads and teaches the author, expresses original judgements on Russia, people, the author as a harbinger of new philosophy.

9

Authors: Georgy S. Prokhorov

There are left only isolated, minor documents on the official investigation of an unexpected death of M.A. Dostoevsky, the writer’s father. Among others, cause of death statement. Based on forensic-medical instructions we reconstruct the context and try to read the resolution part of the forensic medical opinion of Kashira district physician I.I.Shenkneht, reveal internal consistency of the text, as well as its conformity with the ideas and rules of the first half of the 19th century.

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Authors: Tatiana V. Panyukova

The Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House (the Institute of Russian Culture. 100 fund. № 29790. Folio 1) keeps a letter of a young district doctor V.I. Nikolsky to F.M. Dostoevsky dated back to October 25, 1880 from Abakumovka village of Tambov province. The first complete publication of the letter is accompanied with an article that makes an attempt to write a biography of one of the numerous readers and the most vehement and ardent admirer of F.M. Dostoevsky’s works, who wrote the words of encouragement to him because of extremely negative comments and opinions of literary critics that appeared after the publication of the writer’s famous Pushkin speech. The article considers the largest range of sources, reference books, area studies, dictionaries available at the moment, and also provides critical reviews of them. The data reveals typical and at the same time extraordinary destiny of one of the Russian district executives.