F. M. Dostoevsky in the Documents of the Manuscript Department of The Russian Literary History State Museum Named After V. I. Dahl Cover Image

Ф. М. Достоевский в документах рукописного фонда Государственного музея истории российской литературы имени В. И. Даля
F. M. Dostoevsky in the Documents of the Manuscript Department of The Russian Literary History State Museum Named After V. I. Dahl

Author(s): Anna V. Petrova
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: F. M. Dostoevsky; collection of A. G. Dostoevskaya; The Russian Literature History State Museum Named After V. I. Dahl; handwritten materials; source studies;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of the materials about F. M. Dostoevsky from the collection of his wife A. G. Dostoevskaya, who in May 1906 gave them for eternal storage in Moscow. Since the middle of the 20th century the documents have been partially kept in the Manuscript Department of the State Museum of the history of Russian literature named after Vladmir Dahl (State Literary Museum). The most valuable are the letters of F. M. Dostoevsky and other visual materials related to the main events of the writer's life. All these documents have preserved the memory of the life of the great writer, the uniqueness of his personality. Text documents of the Fund systematically and fully represent newspaper criticism of F. M. Dostoevsky in the period from 1846 to 1914 and selectively, at the level of individual articles, the history of the study of the biography and work of the writer in the 20th century. The Dostoevsky Manuscript Fund is enriched with a plentiful collection of the Fund of visual documents, among others photographs, portraits of Fyodor Dostoevsky and persons from his entourage, collected by A. G. Dostoevskaya.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 40-55
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian