Portrait Sketches of Dostoevsky: New Attributions Cover Image

Портретные зарисовки Достоевского: из новых атрибуций
Portrait Sketches of Dostoevsky: New Attributions

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: the Dostoevskys;Voltaire; attribution; drawings; self-portrait; notebooks; creative process;

Summary/Abstract: Attributions of some portrait sketches made by Dostoevsky in his artistic manuscripts are implemented in the article. The writer’s early graphical self portrait is depicted on the margins of the so called "Siberian notebook", the portrait sketches of Voltaire and Shakespeare are attributed. The method of visual argumentation using the known graphical and sculptural portraits of attributed historical figures is applied.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-94
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Russian