num_pages: 244
description: An interesting study of Russia's greatest novelist by his daughter. Includes chapters on the Origins of the Dostoyevsky Family, the Childhood of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Adolescence, The Petrachevsky Conspiracy, Prison Life, Dostoyevsky as Soldier, Dostoyevsky's Marriages, His Travels, Dostoyevsky as a Father, His Relations with Turgenev and Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky as Slavophil.“In reading biographies of my father, I have always been surprised to find that his biographers have studied him solely as a Russian, and sometimes even as the most Russian of Russians. Now Dostoevsky was Russian only on his mother’s side, for his paternal ancestors were of Lithuanian origin. Of all lands in the Russian Empire, Lithuania is certainly the most interesting by reason of its transformations and the various influences it has undergone in the course of centuries.”Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) the might of whose artistic talent considered equal in his writings to that of Shakespeare alone, gave expression in his writings to the boundless suffering of a humiliated and insulted mankind and the boundless anguish that suffering caused him. At the same time, however, he was violently opposed to any attempts to find a way to liberate mankind from humiliation and insult.
language: Russian
title: Достоевский в изображении его дочери
titlecomplete: Достоевский в изображении его дочери
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 50
publisher: "Andreev I Synov'ia"