Достоевский и Вагнер: биография в переписке
Dostoevsky and Wagner: Biography in the Correspondence

Summary/Abstract: F. M. Dostoevsky met N. P. Vagner in the summer of 1875. The evolution of their relations found reflection in the letters of 1875—1877. The letters predominately touch upon the issue of seances, there are also some personal letters. The writer’s interest to Vagner was determined by an unusual passion of the latter for spiritualism that captured Dostoevsky’s interest too. The writer himself wanted to make sense of a new hobby of Russian society that aroused spread in the 1870s. One of the seven known letters of the writer to the spiritualist has not been published in all parts till now, namely that one of January 1, 1876. This letters (along with the unpublished letters of Vagner to the writer’s wife and Anna Grigorievna’s letter to him) allows us to have in a new look at the relations between Dostoevsky and a famous apologist for spiritualism of that time.

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