Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

List of Illustrations  ix

Preface  xi

Transliteration  xv

PART I: THE PETER-AND-PAUL FORTRESS

Chapter 1:Introduction  3

Chapter 2:The Petrashevsky Affair  6

Chapter 3:“A Wealth of Life”  18

Chapter 4:“Clever, Independent, Cunning, Stubborn”  32

Chapter 5:The Incident in Semenovsky Square  49

PART II: KATORGA

Chapter 6:First Impressions  69

Chapter 7:A World of Moral Horror  87

Chapter 8:A Russian Patriot  104

Chapter 9:The Peasant Marey  116

Chapter 10:A New Vision  128

Chapter 11:“Monsters in Their Misery”  146

PART III: FIRST LOVE

Chapter 12:A Thirst for Knowledge  165

Chapter 13:Private Dostoevsky  175

Chapter 14:An Influential Friend  184

Chapter 15:“A Knight in Female Clothing”  200

PART IV: A SECOND START

Chapter 16:A Russian Heart  223

Chapter 17:“Weak” and “Strong” Types  241

Chapter 18:Literary Projects  257

Chapter 19:The Siberian Novellas  266

Uncle’s Dream  269

The Village of Stepanchikovo  276

Chapter 20:Homecoming  290

Abbreviations  305

Notes  307

Index  315