Reconstruction of the Monument to F. M. Dostoevsky’s Mother in Lazarev Cemetery in Moscow Cover Image

О восстановлении памятника матери Ф. М. Достоевского на бывшем Лазаревском кладбище в Москве
Reconstruction of the Monument to F. M. Dostoevsky’s Mother in Lazarev Cemetery in Moscow

Author(s): Pavel Evgenyevich Fokin
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Dostoevsky;Maria Dostoevskaya; the writer’s mother; the Lazarev cemetery; history of Moscow the tombstone;

Summary/Abstract: Maria Fyodorovna Dostoevskaya (nee Nechaeva), mother of the great writer, died on March 11th (February 27th), 1837. She was buried at the first public graveyard in Moscow — Lazarev cemetery, the largest one until 1917. In the 1930s this cemetery was ravaged, and the writer’s mother’s remains were subjected to a barbaric exhumation. The tombstone was kept for a long time in the cellar of the State Literary Museum. The given article covers the history of reconstruction of the tombstone of M. F. Dostoevskaya. This cultural and historical event occurred on March 11th, 2017 in the territory of the former Lazarev cemetery in Moscow, near the Holy Spirit Temple. The reconstruction of M. F. Dostoevskaya’s grave is not only the reconstruction of a place of memory of the Dostoevsky dynasty, but is also evocation of recollections of all the buried in the destroyed Lazarev cemetery.

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-159
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Russian