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       Fyodor Dostoyevsky

      The Autobiographical Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

      Memoirs, Letters, Autobiographical Novels, Diary and Biography

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-1810-3

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       BIOGRAPHY:

       Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky

       LETTERS AND MEMOIRS:

       Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to his Family and Friends

       Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky

       AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS:

       The House of the Dead

       The Gambler

      BIOGRAPHY:

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      Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky

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       PREFACE

       I ORIGIN OF THE DOSTOYEVSKY FAMILY

       II THE CHILDHOOD OF FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

       III ADOLESCENCE

       IV FIRST STEPS

       V THE PETRACHEVSKY CONSPIRACY

       VI PRISON LIFE

       VII WHAT THE CONVICTS TAUGHT DOSTOYEVSKY

       VIII DOSTOYEVSKY A SOLDIER

       IX DOSTOYEVSKY'S FIRST MARRIAGE

       X A PASSIONATE EPISODE

       XI A LITERARY FRIENDSHIP

       XII DOSTOYEVSKY AS HEAD OF HIS FAMILY

       XIII MY mother's family AND ITS ORIGIN

       XIV MY mother's GIRLHOOD

       XV THE BETROTHAL

       XVI DOSTOYEVSKY's second MARRIAGE

       XVII TRAVELS IN EUROPE : FIRST PART

       XVIII TRAVELS IN EUROPE : SECOND PART

       XIX THE RETURN TO RUSSIA

       XX LITTLE ALEXEY

       XXI " THE JOURNAL OF THE WRITER "

       XXII DOSTOYEVSKY IN HIS HOME

       XXIII DOSTOYEVSKY AS A FATHER

       XXIV DOSTOYEVSKY AND TURGENEV

       XXV DOSTOYEVSKY AND TOLSTOY

       XXVI DOSTOYEVSKY THE SLAVOPHIL

       XXVII COUNTESS ALEXIS TOLSTOY'S SALON

       XXVIII THE PUSHKIN FESTIVAL

       XXIX THE LAST YEAR OF DOSTOYEVSKY'S LIFE

       XXX DEATH OF DOSTOYEVSKY

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       Russia was preparing to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky on October 30, 1921. Our writers and poets hoped to do honour in prose and verse to the great Russian noveUst; the Slav peoples had arranged to send deputations to Petrograd, to pay their homage in Czech, Serbian and Bulgarian to the great Slavophil, who was ever faithful to the idea of our future Slav confederation. The Dostoyevsky family, in its turn, proposed to mark the occasion by publishing the documents preserved in the Historical Museum of Moscow. My mother was to have given the world her memories of her illustrious husband, and I was to have written a new biography of my father, and to have recorded my childish impressions of him.

      It is unlikely that any such festival will take place. A terrible storm has passed over Russia, destroying the whole fabric of our European civilisation. The Revolution, long ago predicted by Dostoyevsky, burst upon us after a disastrous war. The gulf which for two centuries had been widening between our peasants and our intellectuals, became an abyss. Our intellectuals, intoxicated by

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