The Books F. M. Dostoevsky had during his Detention in the Alexis Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress (1849) Cover Image

Книги, бывшие у Ф. М. Достоевского во время пребывания в Алексеевском равелине Петропавловской крепости (1849 год)
The Books F. M. Dostoevsky had during his Detention in the Alexis Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress (1849)

Author(s): Boris Nikolaevich Tikhomirov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: F. M. Dostoevsky; arrest; detention; the Peter and Paul Fortress; reading circle; bibliographic description; reconstruction

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 68-83
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English, Russian