Адреса Достоевского в Петербурге: критический анализ источников и экспертиза краеведческих публикаций
Dostoevsky's Addresses in St. Petersburg: Critical Analysis of Sources and Examination of Regional Publications

Summary/Abstract: This series of two articles represents a systematic and complex analysis of the information on F.M. Dostoevsky’s addresses in Saint Petersburg. All the variety of existing archive documents is applied taking into consideration the peculiarities of presenting address and topographic data in the documents and printed publications of the 19th century. Memoirs and epistolary testimonies are necessarily exposed to a critical review. St. Petersburg addresses of Dostoevsky are explored in a chronological order, from 1837 until 1881. The address of the house where the writer lived is defined as precisely as possible and a contemporary address of that dwelling is given. The houses, that remained intact, are provided with the dates of their construction and later reconstructions. If a historic house of the Dostoevsky epoch has not come down to the present day the date of the construction of a new one in the same place is specified. The corpus of documentary records and their critical reviewing is an essential part of the analytic description of each address. Wherever possible, some details of an address are revealed, such as an apartment and a storey number, the number of rooms and so on. Special attention is focused on the characteristics of the householders.

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