«Публика, читатели – другое дело: они всегда меня поддерживали»
"Public, Readers... That is Another Matter: They Always Supported Me"
Author(s): Tatyana Viktorovna PanyukovaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Fyodor Dostoevsky; V. I. Nikolsky; correspondence; biography; writer; reader
Summary/Abstract: The Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House (the Institute of Russian Culture. 100 fund. № 29790. Folio 1) keeps a letter of a young district doctor V.I. Nikolsky to F.M. Dostoevsky dated back to October 25, 1880 from Abakumovka village of Tambov province. The first complete publication of the letter is accompanied with an article that makes an attempt to write a biography of one of the numerous readers and the most vehement and ardent admirer of F.M. Dostoevsky’s works, who wrote the words of encouragement to him because of extremely negative comments and opinions of literary critics that appeared after the publication of the writer’s famous Pushkin speech. The article considers the largest range of sources, reference books, area studies, dictionaries available at the moment, and also provides critical reviews of them. The data reveals typical and at the same time extraordinary destiny of one of the Russian district executives.
Journal: Неизвестный Достоевский
- Issue Year: 2/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 106-121
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English, Russian
