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The grave of Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna. The cemetery became a popular and prestigious burial ground for those of many areas of society. The wealthy merchant A.I. Kosikovsky was buried under a monumental sarcophagus on a high pedestal surmounted by a canopy on eight fluted columns. [2]
[4] [9] On 1 February 1881 the author Fyodor Dostoevsky was buried in the cemetery, with a similarly large monument. [4] [10] During the 1880s composers Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin were buried in the northern part of the grounds, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky following in 1891. [4] [11] [12] [13]
The grave was later dissolved but in 1986 the International Dostoevsky Society donated a commemorative plaque. [85] The couple moved from Geneva to Vevey and then to Milan before continuing to Florence. The Idiot was completed there in January 1869, the final part appearing in The Russian Messenger in February 1869.
Vasily Perov's Портрет Ф.М.Достоевского (Portrait of F.M. Dostoevsky), which was an indirect cause for the writing of Bobok. Dostoevsky was prompted to write the story by a journalist's reaction to the first instalments of the Diary of a Writer. At the time, Dostoevsky edited the newspaper-magazine "The Citizen", where the ...
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brát'ya Karamázovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.
She was the second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna.Their first, Sonya, was born in 1868 and died the same year. Lyubov never married. Later in her life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house. [2]
On 4 October 1866, Anna Snitkina started working as a stenographer on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Gambler. [5] A month later they became engaged. [5]In the Memoirs, Anna describes how Dostoevsky began his marriage proposal by outlining the plot of an imaginary new novel, as if he needed her advice on female psychology. [6]