Вольнослушательницы университетов начала 1860-х гг. из окружения Достоевского
Dostoevsky and the volunteers of the university in the early 1860’s

Summary/Abstract: In the early 1860s a notable phenomenon of social life in Russia was the struggle of women for the right to visit universities and obtain higher education. F. M. Dostoevsky was «for» the changes in the public consciousness that were in process at this time, and thus, supported the desire of the girls of that time to work and study, at the same time denying the revolutionary ways of achieving this goal. It was no coincidence that on the pages of journals edited along with his brother Mikhail («Vremya», 1861–1863, «Epokha», 1864–1865) he published articles and essays on female education and the «women’s question» in general. Dostoevsky was personally acquainted with a lot of bright representatives of a «new» generation, such as the sisters Natalia Ieronimovna and Ekaterina Ieronimovna Corsini, Nadezhda Prokofievna Suslova and her sister Apollinaria. Existing letters of some of the mentioned girls to the writer testify his friendliness to them. Fyodor Mikhailovich knew also the sisters Korvin-Krukovsky, who left a large footprint in the history of women’s education. All these girls (with the exception of E. Corsini) were engaged in writing. Their diaries, memoirs, letters and literary experiments vividly illustrate the process of the formation of women’s self-awareness, their hard way to education and work. This study is an attempt to systematize and analyze the facts of the biography of female noncredit students at the beginning of the 1860s through their correlation with life and work of the writer.

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