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The article introduces into scientific circulation new archival and printed sources related to the Moscow branch of the family tree of F. M. Dostoevsky. They pertain to five generations of the writer᾽s ancestors and relatives — from the great-great-great-grandfather of the priest Andrey Grigoriev to the mother of Maria Fedorovna Nechaeva-Dostoevskaya. The certificates of M. F. Nechaeva᾽s birth, her brother Mikhail’s (Dostoevsky᾽s uncle) birth and death, the wedding of the grandfather and grandmother of the writer Fyodor Timofeevich Nechaev and Varvara Mikhailovna Kotelnitskaya, the birth and wedding of Alexandra Fedorovna Nechaeva-Kumanina (Dostoevsky᾽s aunt), the death of grandfather F. T. Nechaev, etc. are published for the first time. For the first time, the names of the brother of Dostoevsky᾽s great-great-great-grandfather, the archpriest of the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin, John Grigoriev, the great-grandmother of the writer Nastasia Kotelnitskaya and some other relatives are established. Clarifications and corrections have been made to the information previously published in genealogical works about members of the Dostoevsky family. The authors of the article paid special attention to the establishment of the Moscow addresses of the ancestors and relatives of the writer, laying the foundation for the creation of the “Dostoevsky᾽s Moscow” map in the future.F. M. Dostoevsky, family tree, Kotelnitskys, Nechaevs, Moscow, Church records, confessional list, formulary list, address book, atlas of Moscow, M. V. Volotskoy, G. A. Fedorov, The Chronicle of the Generations of Dostoevsky, The Chronicle of the Generations of Dostoevskys

The building of the former Konstantinovsky Boundary Institute, preserved on Old Basmannaya Street, is a memorable Moscow location associated with the name of Dostoevsky. The writer often stayed and lived here, thanks to his close relationship with the family of his sister Vera Mikhailovna Ivanova. They were formed not only because of his sister, but primarily owing to her husband Alexander Pavlovich Ivanov, a doctor and teacher at the Surveying Institute. A. P. Ivanov was distinguished by high moral qualities, incredible kindness, generosity, excellent education, dedication to medical and pedagogical service. These qualities of the writer’s brother-in-law are acknowledged not only in the letters of Dostoevsky, whom A. P. Ivanov helped during difficult periods of his life, but also in the famous memoirs of A. M. and A. G. Dostoevsky’s, N. Von Focht, and M. A. Ivanova. The article presents the data from A. P. Ivanov’s record of service for 1847, 1848, 1854, 1867 and 1868, allowing to trace his career growth and professional duties. The living image of a motivated student of the medical faculty of Moscow University, A. P. Ivanov, is drawn by the forgotten memoirs of his classmate M. V. Tolstoy, published in 1881. The significance of the “long-term and useful service” of the doctor and teacher of the Boundary Institute for students and the entire staff of the educational institution is reflected in the little-known memoirs about him by A. L. Apukhtin, the director of this educational institution, which were used in this study.Dostoevsky, A. P. Ivanov, V. M. Ivanova, M. V. Tolstoy, A. L. Apukhtin, N. Von Focht, Konstantinovsky Surveying Institute, Dostoevsky Moscow, record of service

Interaction with the serfs of the Darovoe estate, which belonged to the parents of F. M. Dostoevsky in the first half of the 19th century, made a strong impression on the future writer. Some peasants were close to the Dostoevsky family, they were mentioned in family correspondence and even became prototypes of the characters in the works of the writer and his older brother Mikhail. Dostoevsky met again with his childhood acquaintances from the village during his last visit to Darovoe in the summer of 1877. Until now, the only sources that gives an idea of the inhabitants of Darovoe were church records: metric books and confessional statements. In 1939, V. S. Nechaeva published the “List of peasants of the village of Darovoe and the village of Cheremoshnya according to the 1835 church bulletin.” Another source for studying the demography of Darovoe and Cheremoshnya is the revision tales. In this article are analyzed the data of the 8th — 10th revisions on Darovoe for the first time, the transcript of the 8th revision published in the appendix to it. These documents made it possible to trace the changes in the composition of the inhabitants of Darovoe from 1834 to 1858 and became an addition to the church bulletin of 1835. Three audits took place during this period, revealing the practical absence of changes in the composition of the inhabitants of Darovoe: there were 11 peasant families (the exception was in 1850, when there were ten families). Such isolation of the Darovoe community contributed to the preservation of local traditions and customs, which F. M. Dostoevsky could observe while living in Darovoe. Many descendants of the Dostoevsky peasants still live in Darovoe today, and the genealogy of the peasants of the village of Darovoe can be traced up to our days.Darovoe, confessional statements, revision tales, M. F. Dostoevskaya, M. M. Dostoevsky, F. M. Dostoevsky, V. M. Ivanova (nee Dostoevskaya), serfs, courtyards, family

The article examines the publishing business and book trade of F. M. and A. G. Dostoevsky. Anna Grigoryevna has begun to actively participate in her husband’s creative process as a stenographer and copyist since 1866, and in the publishing business — since 1873. The publishing business of the Dostoevsky family is considered in the article against the background of the publishing process of the 19th century, which consisted of the author’s prepress work on the text together with the editor, publisher, typographer, printing factor, metranpage, proofreader, censor. Anna Grigorievna worked on the proofs along with Dostoevsky. After the publication of the book or a magazine issue, the book trade began, which described in the memoirs of A. G. Dostoevskaya, her letters and notebooks, which contained systematic records related to the distribution of “A Writer’s Diary” and the sale of books. The names of publishers, booksellers and subscribers are regularly mentioned in F. M. Dostoevsky’s notebook of 1875–1876, as well as in A. G. Dostoevskaya’s notebooks of 1875–1884. However, there is no proper commentary in the scientific literature on many names, or, if present, it is not entirely accurate. The author of the article, in particular, found out which of the five Pechatkin brothers is mentioned in the notebooks of F. M. Dostoevsky and his wife, what are the booksellers from Kazan Dubrovina famous for, who distributed “A Writer’s Diary”, who is S. I. Litov and what led to the popularity of his bookstore in Kiev. This material will allow us to better imagine how publishing and book trade developed not only for Dostoevskys in particular, but also in the 19th century as a whole.F. M. Dostoevsky, A. G. Dostoevskaya, M. A. Alexandrov, V. V. Timofeeva (O. Pochinkovskaya), publisher, editor, typographer, factor of typography, metranpage, proofreader, typesetter, typesetting manuscript, book trade, the Pechatkin brothers, I. V. Dubrovin, A. A. Dubrovin, A. S. Dubrovin, S. I. Litov

The article presents an overview of a little-researched archival source — the notebooks of Anna Dostoevskaya. About 100 notebooks kept by the writer’s wife have been preserved in Moscow and St. Petersburg archives. They were created between 1875 and 1917, covering the last five years of Dostoevsky’s life and the time after his death. However, they did not arouse much interest among researchers due to the prevalence of economic and business records in them. Selected entries and pages were published by L. P. Grossman, I. L. Volgin, S. V. Belov, T. N. Ornatskaya, A. V. Arkhipova, I. S. Andrianova, T. V. Panyukova. Many records of undoubted historical and literary significance still haven’t been introduced into scientific circulation, among them sketches of excerpts from “A Writer’s Diary” and memories of Dostoevsky; lists of types of his favorite places and paintings, pharmacy prescriptions; pasted or rewritten letters from readers and documents of the Dostoevsky family; records related to the movement of the writer’s manuscripts, books and the belongings after his death, and to his widow’s work to create the first in Russia “Dostoevsky Memorial Museum,” to establish a school named after him in Staraya Russa, and others. The article provides examples of unpublished records that are of value for biographers (the names of Dostoevsky’s servants in 1875–1876, Maria of Baden’s, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, impression of the writer’s work and death, Dostoevsky’s words remembered by his widow, a rough sketch for his memoirs). Based on the study of economic notes by A. G. Dostoevskaya, it is hypothesized that Dostoevsky’s maid Lukerya could have been the prototype of a servant with the same name from the ‘fantastic short story’ “A Gentle Creature” and the novel “The Adolescent.” A letter written by A. G. Dostoevskaya to E. F. Junge whose autograph is lost was discovered in one of the notebooks. A. G. Dostoevskaya’s notebooks are a genuine treasure trove of materials related to Dostoevsky and his era. They required research, systematization, chronological attribution and publication.Dostoevsky, Anna Dostoevskaya, archive, notebook, subscription book, memoirs, biography, memory