The Unknown Dostoevsky

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Authors: Alexander V. Otlivanchik

The article provides a critical analysis of the Fee List №№ 23—39 first published in the Journal “Grazhdanin” in 1873 with comments. It is compared with the Fee List of “Grazhdanin” № 45 (1873), which forms part of a business letter of V. P. Meshchersky to F. M. Dostoevsky under date the 5th of November, 1873. The rates of payment per text line during the editorship of Dostoevsky are précised as well as the criteria of the authors involvement of F. M. Dostoevsky, N. N. Strakhov, V. F. Putsykovich, A. U. Poretsky, A. Naumov are defined in the article.

70-91

Authors: Natalja A. Tarasova

The article is dedicated to the problems of reading, publishing, dating and commenting on Dostoevsky’s draft notes and diaries that reveal his unaccomplished ideas in the late 1860s and early 1870s. The article proposes new textological solutions concerning scientific principles of reconstruction of handwritten materials taking into consideration peculiarities of the author's creative process and the position of handwritten notes on a page. The article studies variants of publishing author’s unaccomplished ideas, born in the broad thematic context of Dostoevsky’s diaries and among the preliminary drafts of his other incomplete works. For the first time, the study clarifies the chronological order of notes in Dostoyevsky’s notebooks, and raises a question of another sequences of their publishing in the press. Much attention is paid to the problem of commenting on Dostoevsky’s drafts. Certain mistakes, previously made in academic and other scholarly comments, have been corrected. Finally, new facts have been added to already existing comments on the manuscript texts.

128-143

Authors: Irina S. Andrianova

150 years ago, on October 4th (October 17th), 1866, a stenographer Anna Snitkina came to work to the writer Dostoevsky. So, she made a life-changing acquaintance of him, which culminated in a happy marriage and a successful creative collaboration. The subject the acquaintance of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina is popular in Art and literature: it is embodied in the biographical researches, fiction, drama, cinema. At the heart of this publication there are the results of studying the creative process of writing memories by Anna Dostoevskaya about her acquaintance of the writer and their collaboration on the novel “The Gambler”. The author of the article has made a textual study of the extant editions and drafts of biographical memories of that period of Dostoevsky and his bride, made a comparison with the verbatim records of the diary of 1867. As a result, there were brought to light and considered auto censorial corrections and fragments that were not included in the last edition of memoirs at the discretion of the memoirist. These episodes of a draft manuscript are similar to verbatim records of the diary that are of greater factual certainty than memoirs. They reliably convey the circumstances and atmosphere of the first meeting of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina, their work, communication problems, particular traits of characters, habits and tastes.