Fyodor Dostoevsky—In the Beginning (1821–1845): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism 9781501757075

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoe vsky A

LIFE IN LETTERS, MEMOIRS,

AND CRITICISM

IN THE BEGINNING

1821-1845

Thomas Gaitan Marullo

N I U Press I DeKa l b

Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb 60115 (hler, Louis, 156 Koni, Pyodor Alexeevich, 262n96 Kotelnitsky, Vasili Mikhailovich, 3, 30, 239n23 Kraevsky, Andrei Alexandrovich, 206,211-12 Krivopishin, Ivan Grigorie\'ich, 180 Krylov, Ivan Andreevich: discussed, 135; "Geese;' 240n29

Engineering Castle (From the Memories of Cadets), 'I he;' 77 Letters of a Russian Pilgrim (Karamzin), 48,

243n72 Letters of a V!Jyager (Sand), 248n2 Library for Reading, Tl1c: discussed, 6, 52, 244n91 Life Opinions of Tom-Cat ivlurr, Together with the Fragmentary Biography of Conductor

Kryukova, Alyona (Elena) Prolovna: discussed,

Johannes Kreisler in Accidental Gallery

3, 28-29,40, 120, 239nl8, 257nl08 Kubaryov, Alexei Mikhailovich: Theory of Russian \'crsification, Tl1c, 2 Kukolnik, Nikolai Vasilievich, 209, 2n6n 170

Proofs, Edited by f. T. A. Hv.ffinan

Kumanin, Alexander Alexeevich, 238n14, 260n40 Kumanin, Alexander Andreevich, 123-24 Kumanin, Pyotr Andreevich, 149, 260n42 Kumanina, Alexandra Fyodorovna: discussed, 8, 12, 68, 1nO, 238n 14; A.M. Dostoevsky on, 26-27

(Hoffman), llS, 97, 254n43, 254n65 Livy, 2 !On29 lizards, 38 Lizst, Franz, 153 Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich, 48, 243n70 Lost lllwions (Balzac), 266n180 "Lost Reflection, The" (Hoffman), 248n2 Lukeria (wet nurse), 30 Lvovna, Anna, 181

M

L Lagvenova, Alexandra Dmitrievna, 116 Lamartine, Alphonse de: "Dying Poet, 'I he;' 157, 261n58 Lame Devil, The (Lesage), 167, 262n92 Last Aldini. The (Sand), 61 !at in, 3, 21, 5 I, 114, 244 n88 Lavrentieva, Agrafena Timofeevna, 42-43, 242n51

"Magnetizer, The" (Hottman), 255n70 Maikov, Apollon Nikolaevich, 216 Main Engineering Academy. Sec also education: discussed, 6, 8-9,70, 78-79, 80-81,

84; E M. Dostoevsky enters, 251n26; F. M. Dostoevsky graduates, 158, 159, 261n66, 261 n70; F. M. Dostoevsky repeats year, 91l, 99, 10 l, 105, 113, 255n71; entrance examinations, 7, 8, 73, 248n8

lawsuit, 24ln39 Lawsuit, Tl1e (Gogo!), 211, 266n182 Lazarevskoe Cemetery, 63

Makarov, Danila Savinovich, I 18, 243n67, 256n101 Makarov, Kharlam. See Kharlashka (peasant)

Lazhechnikov, Ivan lvanovich: Ice House, The, 48, 243n73

Marcus, Fvodor Antonovich, 249n15 Marcus, ~likhail Antonovich, 73, 249n15

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre, 245n99 Leibrecht, A. I., 125-26, 129 rcone Leoni (Sand), 248n2

iViarfa, the Boyar's Daughter (Karamzin), 48,

Lermontov, 259n30

Maria Fyodorovna, Empress, 1 J'>1aria Simonova (Shidlovsky), 138, 259n4

~likhail:

Hero of Our Time, A,

Lcrmontov, ,',1ikhail Yuricvich, 135, 252n29

Marcy (peasant), 3, 31l-39, 24ln40 243n72

Maria Stuart (F. M. Dostoevsky), 146, 152

INDEX

289

Maria's Grove, 54

My 1\'ife and ,'vfy Umbrella (Chapelle), 265n149

Marryat, Frederick: japhet, in Search of a Father,

Mysteries of Udolpho, 1he (Radcliffe), 240n30

157,261n61 l'vlary Stuart (Schiller), 260n35 Masalsky, Konstantin Petrovich: Streltsy, 48,

N

243n73 mathematics, 114

Narezhnyi, Vasili Trofimovich: Seminarian, The, 48,243n74

Mathilde, or the Notes of a YtJUng Woman (Sue), 163, 165, 166, 167, 261n79

Nechaev, Fyodor Timofeevich, 238n 15

Mattea (Sand), 24Rn2

Nechaev, Mikhail Fyodorovich, 34, 48-49,

Maturin, Charles Robert: Me/moth the Wanderer, 254n44

Nechacva, Olga Yakovlevna, 123, 257n1 02,

Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 262n89 Medea (Corneille), 259n17

257nl05 Nckrasov, Nikolai Alexeevich: discussed, 16,

240n32,243n79

Medea (Seneca), 259n 17 Melikhov, Ivan Vasilievich, 121

135, 144, 200-203; Dreams and Sounds, 259n32; "Greeting from Belinsky to

Me/moth the Wanderer (Maturin), 254n44

Dostoevsky, A;' 267n187: Petersburg

Memories of the Devil (Soulie), 85, 254n47

Miscellany, The, 15,217,220, 266nl64;

Menologian. See 1\Ionthly Readings, The (Saint Dmitri of Rostov)

Physiology of Petersburg, 7he, 15, 263n112:

Messenger of Europe, 216, 218, 219-20

on Poor Folk, 221 Netochka Ne::vrmova (F M. Dostoevsky), 156,

Mezhevich, Vasili Stepanovich, 171, 172 Michele!, Jules, 255n67 Mikhailov, Alexei, 119, 142

181, 261n79 New Time, 247nll2 Nezhinsky Gymnasium of Advanced Science,

Mikhailovsky Castle, 9, 76-77, 78, 249-50n21, 250n22,25ln25 Mochulsky, Konstantin, 19, 237n 1 (Introduction), 237n1 (Part One), 238n7

245n95 Nicholas I, 12, 13, 244n85, 254n60 Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens), 46, 243n64 Nikitenko, Alexander Vasilievich, 163, 165, 171,

money: and billiards, 161, 166; discussed, 10-11,

261n81

12-13. 261n74: and dominoes, 167; and M.

Nikitin, Vasili, 119-20

M. Dostoevsky, 66; and P. A. Karepin, 13; and A. F. Kumanina, 8, 12, 160: and pawnbroker, 161-62; stolen, 161; and women, 212

Nikolai Pavlovich, Grand Duke, 9

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de, 83, 253n37 Monthly Readings, Tlze (Saint Dmitri ofRostov), 36,240n33

Nisard, Desire, 100, 255n76, 255n77 Northern Bee, The: Belinsky on, 266nl67: discussed, 60, 245n99. 254n49

Montigny, Joseph-Nicholas, 157

Notes from the Underground (F. M. Dostoevsky), 136 Notes ojthe Fotherlarut, 157, 1~3

"Morning" (M. M. Dostoevsky), 137

Novel in Nine Letters, A (F M. Dostoevsky), 266n172,266nl81

Moscow Hereditary Gentry, 33 Moscow Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy,

Novae vremia, 264n128

238n10 "Most Serene Order of Cuckolds, The;' 247n121 Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 240n31

0

Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, 263n 104

Obodovsky, Pia ton Grigorievich, 172, 1R3

music, 34, 153, 157 Mute Girl o(Portici, The (Auher), 256n95

Odoevsky, Prince, 211, 266n177 Old Curiosity Shop, "!he (Dickens), 46, 243n64

290

INDEX

Olga (boat), 205 Oliver Twist (Dickens), 46, 243n64 One Thousand and One Nights, 30, 239n22

Phedre (Racine), 140, 259n 13 Photius the Monk, 10, 83, 253n36

Physiology of Petersburg, The (Nekrasov), 15,

opera, !57

Opium and Champagne, or the War of China (Clairville), 262n84 oral epics, 239n21 Orlova-Chesmenskaya, Anna Alexeevna. 252n36

135, 263n 112

Pickwick Papers, 'flze (Dickens), 246n105 Picture Gallery of Societal Life, or the i'vfores of the Nineteenth Century, A (Bilevich), 245n95 Plaksin, Vasili Timofeevich: Belinskr on, 252n29; discussed, 86, 147, 252n29; on Cogol, 252n29; on Push kin, 252n29;

Ostrogradsky, Mikhail Vasilievich, 147 Ostrovsky (writer), 135 Our Lady ofKann, 263n104

Upbringing of Women, The, 252n29 Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich, 263nl04

Outline ofChurch-Biblicul History for the Benefit ofSpiritual Youth, An (Filaret), 44, 242n57 Overcoat, The (Gogo!), II, !5, 147

"Poets in Germany" (Veis), 264-65n140 Polcvoi, Ksefont Alexeevich, 48, 243n70

Plik and Plok (Sue), 167, 262n91

Polevoi, Nikolai Alexeevich: discussed, 254n62;

History of the Russian People, 97, 255n67;

p

"Push kin;' 248n121; Ugolino, 97, 255n67

Pahlen, Pyotr, 250n22

pond, 242n52 Poor Folk (F. M. Dostoevsky): Belinsky on, 204;

Panaev, han: "Greeting ti·01n Belinsky to

and border, 17, 215-16, 217, 218-19, 220; and censors, 16; discussed, 15, 136, 170,213,

Dostoevsky, A;' 267n187

225, 266nl64, 268n202; Grigorovich on,

Panaeva, Avdotya Yakovlevna, 16. 212-13 parents, I, 223 Pascal, Blaise: discussed, 96; Thoughts, 254n63

!99-200; Nekrasov on, 221

Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea, The (Cooper), 85,

Poor Uza (Karamzin), 48, 243n72 Prisoner ofC!tillon, 'lite (Byron), 100, 255n72 Private Secretary, The (Sand), 248n2

254n46 Patriotic War of 1812, 238n 13 Patton, Oscar Petrovich. 163, 164, 165, 166, 167-68

Privits, Fyodor, !56, 260n57 prostitutes, 134, !52 Pushkin, Alexander Scrgeevich: "Cart of Life. '!he;' 256n87; death, 6, 63-64, 68-69,

Paul I, 1, 76, 249n21, 250n22

247-48n121; discussed, 5, 48, 85,102,135,

Pi:re Goriot (Balzac), 60, 246n107 Perrault, Charles: Stories or Fairytales from Bygone Eras, 239n21

268n189; Egyptian Nights, 104, 256n85; ''Freedom;' 250n22; Goering on, 243n78;

l96, 198; .b. M. Dostoevsky's speech on,

Pesotsky, Ivan Petrovich, 171

Plaksin on, 252n29; "Song of the Prophetic Oleg, 111e," 243n77

Peter the Great, 77, 254n50 Peterhof, 86, 254n50, 254n51

"Pushkin" (N. A Polevoi), 248n121

Petersburg .'viiscellony, The (Nekrasov), 15, 217,

"Pushkin and the Lizards;' 26on169

220, 266n 164 "Petersburg Organgrindcrs, The" (Grigorovich), 263nll2 Pctipa, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas, 240n28

l'ushkina,

~atalia

Nikolaevna, 247n121

Q

Petipa, Ivlarius, 240n28 Petrashevsky Circle, 252n31 Petrovka, 119, 257n106

Quincey, 1homas de: Confession of an English

Opium Eater, The, 85, 254n44

INDEX

R

291

St. Peter's Basilica, 263n104 St. Petersburg, 133-36

Racine, Jean: Andrumaque, 139, 259n10;

St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, 260n49

Iphigenic, 139, 259n 11, 259n12; Phedre, 140,

St. Petersburg Engineering Corps, 12

259n13

St. Photius the Great, 252n36 Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich,

Radcliffe, Anne: discussed, 33, 34; Mysteries of Udolpho, The, 240n30 Radetsky, Fyodor Fyodorovich, 249n14 Radonezhsky, Sergei, 239n26 rape, 14, 37, 164 Raphael, 196 Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich, 251 n24 reading, 5-6, I 0, 11, 14, 36, 46, 48, I 07-8, 108, 224,225 "Recollections" (Annenkov), 218 red cap, 53, 244n92 religion, 2, 26, 35, 224 "Remarkable Decade, A' (Annenkov), 216

Repertoire ofRussian and Pantheon of All European n1eaters, 183, 262 n90, 262n96, 264nl24 "Requiem" (Gartong), lfi7 resignation/retirement: discussed, 172-73, 178 . 179, 180-81, 184,187,197, 262n!OO, 264n119

Revel Smelt, Ihe, 86 Rizenkampf, Alexander Egorovich, 93, 158-59

Rob Roy (Scott), 46, 243n63 Robbers, The (Schiller), 5, 37, 171, 241n38 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 5, 242n49 Rochefort, Edmond: Jacko. or the Brazilian Monkey, 33, 240n28 Romanov, Mikhail, 243n69 "Rose, The" (M. M. Dostoevsky), 137 Rubini, Giovanni, 156 Rublyov, Andrei, 240n26

135 Samson Statue, 254n51 Sand, George: Anonymous on, 245n96; Belinsky on, 245-46n102, 247n112; Cosima, 24Sn98; discussed, 6, 60-61, 193-94, 264n132; French correspondent on, 245n99; Indiana, 245n101; Jeanne, 61, 247n111;

Last Aldini, The, 61; Leone Leoni, 248n2; Letters of a Voyager, 248n2; Mattea, 248n2; Private Secretary, The, 248n2; on religion, 264n 128; Tcverino, 209, 266n175; Turgenev on, 247nll2; Usoque, 60, 61, 246nl03; Zhorzhsandism, 246n104 Saveliev, Arisha, 241 n44 Saveliev, Arkhip, 40, 241n44 Saveliev, David, 23, 27, 120, 239n17 Savushkin, Andrei, 118, 256n 101 Schiller, Johann von: "About Naive and Sentimental Poetry;' 262n97; discussed, 37, 87, 138-39; Don Carlos, 144, 168, 169, 172, 183; Fiesco, 171, 172; Mary Stuart, 260n35;

Robbers, 'Ihe, 5, 37, 171, 241n38; Semela, 172, 262n98; Walle11stein, 263n115 Schlegel, August, 113, 256n96 Schonknecht (doctor), 258n121 Schronrock, 1. :\!., 258n121 Scoffer. The, 208-9,211,214 Scott, Walter: Edinburgh Dungeon, The, 46, 243n63; "E,·e of St. john, The;' 256n86;

Guy ;Hanl1ering, or the Astrologer, 85, 198, 254n45, 265n146; Heart ofMidlothian. The, 243n63; Rob Roy, 46, 243n63

Ruslcm and Lyudmila (Glinka), 156 Russian Invalid, The, 197, 264nl39, 264n140

Sed1yonov, Ivan Mikhailov, 249n 14

Russian literature, 135-36

Seeker of Strong Sensations, The (Kamensky),

s

Semela (Schiller), 172, 262n98 Seminarian, 'Ihe (Narezhnyi), 48, 243n74

262n93

Semyon (servant), !60 Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 245n93 St. Michael's Castle. See S1ikhailovsky Castle

Seneca:A1edea,259n17 Senkovsky, Osip lvanovich, 60, 188, 244n91

292

INDEX

Sentimental ]oumcy Through France and Italy, A

Stories or Fairytales from Bygone Eras (Perrault),

(Sterne), 198, 265nl43, 265n144 Shakespeare, William: discussed, 113, 147, 185, 256n96; Hamlet, 254n62; l'vfeasurc for Measure, 262n89; Much Ado About Nothing, 240n31 Sherwood, John, 50, 244n85 Shevyakov, Vladimir Vasilievich, 237n2

239n21 "Strange Confessions of George Sand, 1he"

Shevyryov, Stepan Petrovich, 209, 266n 169 Shidlovsky, Ivan 1\ikolacvich: attempts suicide, 109, 256n90; discussed, 7-8,88, 101-3,137-38, 253n40, 259n5; onM. M. Dostoevsky, 255n84; ]l;laria Simonova, 138, 259n4; poetry, 103-4; "Sky, 'The;' 255n78 Ship ofTatarinova, 251n25 Shirokov, Ivan Semyonovich, 118-19 Siberia, 258nl17, 258n126 Silver Dove, The (Belyi), 251n24 Simeon (E. A. Alexandrova's son), 88 "Sky, The" (Shidlovsky), 255n78 Smailholm Tower, 256nR6 "Smailholm Tower, The" (Zhukovsky), 256n86 Smitt, Fyodor: History of the Polish Uprising and War in the Years 1830 and 1831, A, 164, 262n85 snakes, 4, 38 Society of the History of Russian Antiquities, 239n23 Sollogub, Vladimir Alexandrovich: discussed, 211, 266nl71\; Tarantas, 199, 265n153 Son of the Fatherland, 100, 255n75, 255n78 "Song of the Prophetic Oleg, The" (Pushkin), 243n77

of' Young Werther, The (Goethe), 256n92 hcderic: Eulalie Pontois, 262n84; General Confession, 157, 26ln59; lvfemories of the Devil, 85, 254n47 Spassky, Peter Nikitich, 253n36 Stasyulevich, Mikhail Matcevich, 218, 220 statue, 238n IS "Steeds of Phoebus. The" (M. M. Dostoevsky), 137 Sterne, Laurence: Sentimcntal journey Through France and Italy, A, 198, 265n143, 265nl44 Sorrows Soulit~,

Store j(Jr Instructive and Pleasant Reading for German Readers in Russia, The, 165, 262n86

(Anonymous), 245n96 Streltsy, 243n73 Streltsy (Masalsky), 48, 243n73 "Stroll, '!he" (M. M. Dostoevsky), 137 Strugovshchikov, Alexander ;-.Jikolaevich, 169 stushevat'sia, 10,81-82,213 Sue, Eugene: eternal jew, The, \99, 265n150; Mathilde, or the Notes of a Young Woman,

1fi3, 165, 166, 167, 261n79; Plik and Plok, 167, 262n91 Summer Gardens, 249n21 Suvorin, Alexei Sergcevich, 216, 247n 112 Svintsov, Vitali, 240-4ln37

T Tanmtas (Sollogub), 199, 265n153 Tarus Bulba (Gogo!), 262n89 Tatarinova, Ekaterina, 78, 251 n25 Temple of )uno, 240n29 Teverino (Sand), 209, 266n 175 Thackeray, William, 46 Theory of Russian Versification, The (Kubaryov), 2

"lhierry, Augustin, 255n67 Thoughts (Pascal), 254 n63 Time of Troubles, 243n69 Timofeev, Alexei Vasilievich, 109 Tot, l'e!Lx, 81, 252n31 Tolstoy, Leo, 1 Totlcben, Adolf-Gustav Ivanovich, 148, 249nl4 Totleben, Eduard lvanovich, 249n14 Trinity Cathedral, 240n26 Troitsky Sobor, 240n26 Troitsky-Sergiev Lavra Monastery, 31, 68, 239-40n26 Trutovsky, Konstantin Alexandrovich, 153, 249nl4,260n50 Tsarskoe Selo, 245n93 Turgenev, Alexander lvanovich, 248nl21 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: discussed, 135, 211, 214, 266n 162, 266n 179; "Greeting from

INDEX

Belinsky to Dostoevsky, A:' 267nl87; on Sand, 247nl12 Turunov, Mikhail Nikolaevich, 86 Two Brown Tales (Balzac), 157, 26ln60 "Two Grenadiers" (Heine), 157, 261n63

u Ugolino (N. A. Polevoi), 255n67 Undina (Zhukovsky), 97, 255n68 Union of Brothers and Sisters, 251 n25 Upbringing of Women, The (Plaksin), 252n29 Usoque (Sand), 60, 61, 246n103

293

W Wallenstein (Schiller), 263nll5

Wallenstein, Albrecht von, 263nll5 weather, 116, 256n98 Wlw [s To Blame? (Herzen), 135 Wife and The Umbrella, or the Distressed Tuner, The (Karatygin), 265n149 wine, 104 Wollstonecraft, 1\!ary, 247n 109 women, 16, 151-52,212, 266nl84

y Yanke/ the jew (F. M. Dostoevsky), 166,

v Valuisky Assumption Monastery, 103, 255n83 Vasiliev, Grigori, 40, 142 Vasilisa (laundress), 27, 54 Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhailovich: Bogatyrs, 239n21 Vassilievich, Ivan, 244n85 Veis, A.: "Poets in Germany;' 264-65n140

262n89 Yekaterinhof, 138 Yury Miloslavsky, or the Russians in 1612 (Zagoskin), 48, 243n73

z Zagosk.in, Mikhail Nikolaevich: Yury iVfiluslavsky, or the Russians ilz 1612, 48,

Veltman, Alexander Fomich: Emelia, or the Metamorphosis, 199, 265n 152; Heart and Pillow, 48, 243n75 Venice, 69, 248n2 Vera (maid), 49 Vernet, Horace, 196 Viardot, Pauline, 245n I 00 "Vision of Mother, 1\' (M. M. Dostoevsky), 100-101, 137 Vizard, Yakov lvanovich, 244n88 Voekov, Alexander Fyodorovich: "Insane Asylum, The;' 52, 244n90

243n73 Zaraisk, 43, 242n53 Zhorzhsandism, 246nl04 Zhuchka (dog), 4, 41 Zhukovsky, Vasili Andreevich: "Count from Hapsburg, The;' 48, 243n76; discussed, 5, 52, 255n80; "Smailholm Tower, The;' 256n86; Undina, 97, 255n68 Zotov, Vladimir Rafailovich, 262n84 Zschokke, Heinrich: Hours ojDevotion for the Advancement of Genuine Christianity mzd Familial Divirze Worship, 83, 253n35 Zubov, Nikolai Alexandrovich, 250n22

voice, 5

Zubov, Platon Alexandrovich, 250n22

Volchok (dog), 39 Volotskoi, M. V:: Chronicle of the Dostoevsky Clan, A, 257n102 Voltaire: La Henriade, 6, 44, 243n59 Voronikhin, Nikoforovich, 263n I04 Vyazemsky, Pyotr Andreevich, 255n80