№ 3, 2017 year

The article concerns the attribution of one essay from Dostoevsky’s notebook going back to 1866−1867 (The Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts. Fund 212.1.5. P. 10). Both in the 1st and in the 2d editions of the scholarly Complete Works this essay was considered to be a preparatory material for an unrealized intention of the beginning of 1866 entitled by the publishers “The Usurer” (“Rostovschik”). The article provides us with alternative researches permitting to date the essay to Autumn 1867 and offers a supposition of belonging of the records on this page to the preparatory materials for the novel “The Idiot” going back to Autumn 1867. The arguments of the publishers of the Complete Works are exposed to critical estimation. The position of the essay among surrounding writings in the notebook is studied as well as its contents reechoing with the draft materials of the “Idiot”. The problem of prototypes is also envisaged (in terms of designation of crosscutting motifs). The specificity of the essay impedes its attribution.Dostoevsky, artistic laboratory, textual criticism, attribution, unrealized intention, biographical context, crosscutting motifs, prototypes

The article introduces archival materials that cover the question of collaboration of an outstanding publicist, Slavophil and statesman T. I. Filippov (1826-1899) with the daily “Grazhdanin” edited by V. P. Meshchersky and F. M. Dostoevsky. It also brings light upon the issue of T. I. Filippov’s letters addressed to historian M. P. Pogodin dated back to 1873-1874 and on the texts of some manuscripts presented by Filippov for the review of the Journal editorial board. One of the research aspects is dedicated to the problem of an anonymous participation of T. I. Filippov as a publicist in “Grazhdanin”; more specifically, the attribution of the economic review “About State Budget» to Filippov is supported (“Grazhdanin” 1873. №1, no signature). Thanks to the discovered manuscripts (light verses and a satirical sketch) the fact of collaboration of the writer in 1873-1874 with “Grazhdanin” in the column named “Last page” becomes evident.T. I. Filippov as a Writer of the Periodical “Grashdanin” in 1873-1874: Based on Archival Materials

The correspondence between T. I. Filippov and M. P. Pogodin of 1873–1874 is published accompanied with detailed factual commentaries. Epistolary materials through light on various aspects of the author’s participation of T. I. Filippov in the weekly “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”) and give an idea of the business environment in the editors office complicated due to the situation of the journal having two “owners” — editor F. M. Dostoevsky and publisher (an unofficial coeditor) V. P. Meshchersky. The letters particularly fix on Filippov’s work on a series of the articles on the issues of Old believers uniformity (Edinovertsy), written for “Grazhdanin” based on the discussion materials in Saint Petersburg Department of the Enlightenment Society.T. I. Filippov, M. P. Pogodin, “Grazhdanin”, epistolary genre, the Enlightenment Society, the Old believers uniformity

All his life F. M. Dostoevsky was bound with music. He liked singing and attended literary and musical events and concerts, Russian and Italian opera. Thus, music found its way in his works. The writer was well-received among the composers, musicians, singers and actors. Dostoevsky used to meet Petersburg musicians in different years, particularly, in 1860 in the circle of his friends, at literary and musical events, where they often appeared together. Among his acquaintances there were musicians and composers M. I. Glinka, K. N. Lyadov, M. P. Mussorgsky, the Rubinsteins, A. N. Serov, P. P. Sokalsky, K. P. Villebois, G. Venyavsky, N. A. Kashevsky. Dostoevsky met only once some of them while he was bound with others by companionship during a long time. In late 1860 -early 1861 Dostoevsky got acquainted with composer K. P. Villebois, a disciple and assistant of M. I. Glinka. A common interest they had in determining an ethnie in art and in the Russian idea drew them together for a short period of time. This article based on the study of the periodicals of the 19th century reveals the forgotten and new biographical data of Villebois and presents an overview of his relations with Glinka and Dostoevsky. There is the only letter of the composer to the writer remained unpublished in full. It shows the level of Dostoevsky’s musical culture and his circle of contacts among musicians in the 1860s. Attached to the article there is the letter published with commentaries.Dostoevsky, K. P. Villebois, M. I. Glinka, Balakirev’s circle, an ethnie in art, Russian composers of the 19th century, enlightened dilettantism

Taking an active part in the cultural life of Russia of the late 19th and early 20th centuries E. N. Opochinin was acquainted with lots of his famous contemporaries — Vyazemsky P. P., Maikov A. N., Milyukov A. P., Grigorovich D. V., Krestovsky V. V., Polonsky Ya. P., Turgenev I. S., F. M. Dostoevsky and others — and depicted their portraits in his notes. The article for the first time envisages Opochinin’s diary notes of 1879 1880 about F. M. Dostoevsky, entitled “My conversations with Dostoevsky”, from the viewpoint of the spiritual and moral reference points that defined the worldview of the late Dostoevsky. In his notes Opochinin specified the issues Dostoevsky was occupied with during his work on the novel “The Brothers Karamazov”. In his conversations with the novice man of letters Dostoevsky thought about peculiarities of the infant soul and world, about the construction of a religious family as a way out of the spiritual crisis of the society and the crisis of “gender relations”, about repentance as a way to the restitution of harmony of Man with conscience and with God, about the writer’s attitude to his nation and Motherland, about the veneration of God’s image by Russian people. Dostoevsky’s spiritual and moral ideas turned to be familiar to Opochinin’s ones. Thus, following them allowed the young contemporary of the great writer to take a rightful place in life, journalism and history of Russian literature.E. N. Opochinin, F. M. Dostoevsky, diaries, memories, conversations, spiritual and moral issues