M. M. Dostoevsky as a Businessman (Based on Materials of Russian Periodicals of the 19th Century) Cover Image

М. М. Достоевский – предприниматель (по материалам русской периодики XIX века)
M. M. Dostoevsky as a Businessman (Based on Materials of Russian Periodicals of the 19th Century)

Author(s): Tatjana Shipova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: M. M. Dostoevsky; businessman; tobacco factory; newspaper comments

Summary/Abstract: In the 1850s the elder brother of Fyodor М. Dostoevsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1820 1864), began his own business founding a tobacco factory and a shop in Saint Petersburg. The businessman M.M. Dostoevsky introduced an innovative bonus system for bulk purchasers in the form of the so called “surprises”. Russian periodicals and newspapers mentioned this innovation. This article is a collection of newspaper materials (comments, advertisements and others) dedicated to the tobacco products of M.M. Dostoevsky’s factory. Some of them were published for the first time in the Bulletin of museum life of the State Literature Museum «Zveno 2008» (Shipova Т. N. Obliterate facts. Мoscow, 2009). The present enriched edition contains newspaper articles discovered by Shipova T.N. in the years that followed.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 28-34
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English, Russian