The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand accounts of the novelist from contemporaries' memoirs and rare periodicals, most translated into English for the first time, with a detailed lifetime chronology and annotated bibliography

Introduction: History of the Dostoevsky Archive in Russia by Igor Volgin
    
    Pt. I. Dostoevsky\'s Biography in Documents and Memoirs of His Contemporaries.
    
    1.
    Childhood in Moscow, 1821-1837. The Raped Girl. Shelter for the Poor.
    About F. M. Dostoevsky /
    Orest Miller.
    The Dostoevsky Brothers in Their Childhood /
    Andrei Dostoevsky.
    
    2.
    Studies in the St. Petersburg Military Engineering Academy. Father\'s Death. First Literary Success.
    The Father\'s Death. Fyodor Dostoevsky in the Forties /
    Andrei Dostoevsky.
    Literary Memoirs. Poor People, Dostoevsky\'s First Novel /
    Dmitry Grigorovich.
    Memoirs About Dostoevsky /
    Konstantin Trutovsky.
    First Accounts of a Doctor About Dostoevsky\'s Epilepsy /
    Stepan Ianovsky.
    Dostoevsky\'s First Literary Success /
    Pavel Annenkov.
    First Meeting with Dostoevsky /
    Vladimir Sollogub.
    
    3.
    Socialist Circle, Arrest and Investigation, 1846-1849.
    The Beginning of Dostoevsky\'s Literary Career /
    Avdotia Panaeva.
    About Dostoevsky\'s Involvement in the Petrashevsky Secret Socialist Circle /
    Aleksandr Miliukov.
    The Catastrophe /
    Orest Miller.
    My Arrest and the Investigation of the Petrashevsky Case /
    Andrei Dostoevsky.
    About Dostoevsky\'s Youth: \"He Was Never a Revolutionary\" /
    Pyotr Semenov.
    The Near Execution of the Members of the Petrashevsky Circle: A Witness\'s Report /
    I. Vuich.
    
    4.
    Prison, Army Service and Exile. Ten Years in Siberia: 1849-1859.
    Dostoevsky\'s Four Years in the Omsk Prison /
    Pyotr Martianov.
    Dostoevsky\'s Love Story in the Army /
    E. M. Feoktistov.
    My Meeting with Dostoevsky in Siberia /
    Pyotr Semenov.
    Dostoevsky\'s First Letters from Siberia /
    Andrei Dostoevsky.
    About Dostoevsky\'s Army Service and Exile in Siberia /
    Aleksandr Vrangel.
    New Version of Dostoevsky\'s Arrest: A Witness Report /
    A. Pinchuk.
    \"Fyodor Dostoevsky ... Is to Be Executed by a Firing Squad\": A Myth or a Fact? /
    Aleksei Pleshcheev.
    Secret Meeting with Dostoevsky on His Way to a Siberian Prison /
    M. D. Frantseva.
    Dostoevsky\'s Arrival at Prison /
    Boleslav Markevich.
    The Writer Talking to the Students About Christian Values /
    V. Abeldiaev.
    \"The Dead Man\": In Prison, They Called Him by a Nickname /
    A. K. Rozhnovsky.
    Dostoevsky in the Army: \"He Did Not Talk Much\" /
    Vladimir Iakovlev.
    Several New Letters by Dostoevsky /
    Evgeny Feoktistov.
    Life in the Army Was as Bad as in Prison /
    A. Ivanov.
    Private Dostoevsky During His Routine Service in the Army /
    A. Skandin.
    New Facts About Dostoevsky in Semipalatinsk /
    B. Gerasimov.
    After Siberian Exile: \"We Saw Nervous Convulsions on His Face...\" /
    Boleslav Markevich.
    
    5.
    Literary Journals and \"Innocent\" Novels: The Period of Transition.
    Why Was Dostoevsky Not Published in the Prestigious Journals? /
    P. Kovalevsky.
    My Memories About Journals Edited by Dostoevsky /
    Pyotr Boborykin.
    Memories of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky as a Journalist /
    Nikolai Strakhov.
    A Visit to Fyodor Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg /
    Andrei Dostoevsky.
    Remembrances About Dostoevsky in the Summer of 1866 /
    Maria Ivanova.
    Dostoevsky\'s Writing Crime and Punishment /
    Nikolai Fon-Fokht.
    Dostoevsky Wanted to Stop the Revolutionary Terror in Russia /
    Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
    Dostoevsky During the Day of the First Assassination Attempt on the Tsar /
    Pyotr Veinberg.
    Literary Spectacles with Dostoevsky as an Actor /
    Pyotr Veinberg.
    How Dostoevsky Took Plots of His Novels from Real Life /
    Evgeny Opochinin.
    
    6.
    Three Love Stories in the 1860s, in Russia and Abroad.
    The Years of My Intimacy with Dostoevsky /
    Polina Suslova.
    How Dostoevsky Proposed to Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya /
    Sofia Kovalevskaya.
    Memoirs /
    Anna Dostoevskaya.
    
    7.
    Socialists Become \"the Demons.\" The Citizen, A Writer\'s Diary, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Friendship with the Royal Family.
    He Was the Most Loyal, Dedicated and Conservative Monarchist /
    Vladimir Meshchersky.
    Memoirs of a Close Personal Friend /
    Vsevolod Soloviev.
    Dostoevsky Speaks About Italian Art /
    Aleksandr Briullov.
    Dostoevsky at Literary Parties /
    Elena Stakenshneider.
    Memoirs of a Publishing House Worker /
    Mikhail Alexandrov.
    Dostoevsky Talking to Activists of the Women\'s Movement in Russia /
    Liudmila Simonova.
    Most Novels Were Based on Criminal Cases Taken from Real Life /
    Anatoly Koni.
    Dostoevsky and Spiritualism /
    V. Pribytkova.
    Fyodor Mikhailovich in Staraya Russa /
    Anatoly Alexandrov.
    The House and the Study of Dostoevsky /
    Orest Miller.
    Dostoevsky Speaks About Russian Writers /
    Vladimir Korolenko.
    Dostoevsky\'s Meeting with Anti-Christ /
    I. Iasinsky.
    According to Dostoevsky, the Idea of Socialism Was Alien to Russia and Was Brought from the West /
    N. F. Bunakov.
    Scars Left by Prison Shackles Were Displayed in Public /
    V. M. Peretz.
    Frequent Epileptic Fits - A Terrible Experience /
    A. G. Shile.
    Meeting with the Royal Family During the Creation of Crime and Punishment /
    V. Vasiliev.
    Anna Dostoevskaya Recollects About the Writer\'s Epilepsy /
    I. Izmailov.
    The Dostoevsky Family: Romance Which Never Ended /
    Maria Stoiunina.
    A Story About Dostoevsky\'s Brief Incarceration in the 1870s /
    P. I. Karepin.
    My Meeting with My Uncle, Fyodor Dostoevsky /
    V. A. Sevastianova (Dostoevskaya).
    Memoirs of a Senior Officer from the Parole Department of the Ministry of Justice /
    K. I. Maslennikov.
    My Visit to Dostoevsky\'s Apartment in St. Petersburg /
    N. Pruzhansky.
    Dostoevsky and the Beggar /
    N. Repin.
    Rare Reminiscences from the Personal Diary /
    Anna G. Dostoevskaya.
    
    8.
    The Pushkin Speech: Triumph in Moscow.
    In the Editorial Office of The Russian Speech /
    N. Firsov.
    Dostoevsky\'s Portrait in the Society /
    D. I. Stakheev.
    A Reading by Dostoevsky /
    D. N. Sadovnikov.
    Memoirs About Turgenev and Dostoevsky /
    E. M. Garshin.
    Four Meetings with Turgenev /
    S. A. Vengerov.
    About the Unveiling of the Pushkin Monument in Moscow /
    S. Bobchev.
    Dostoevsky\'s in the Seventies /
    M. Kamenetskaya.
    From My Memoirs: Dostoevsky\'s Speech About Pushkin /
    D. Liubimov.
    Writer\'s Report About Pushkin\'s Festival: \"A Great, Overwhelming Success\" /
    Gleb Uspensky.
    A Few Days Later /
    Gleb Uspensky.
    Those Were Really Unforgettable Days! /
    Alexei Slivitsky.
    More About the Pushkin Speech /
    Anna I. Suvorina.
    The Pushkin Anniversary and Dostoevsky\'s Speech /
    K. M. Staniukovich.
    
    9.
    Dostoevsky\'s Last Month: January 1881.
    Dostoevsky: In Memoriam /
    A. Toliverova.
    A Student Meets Dostoevsky /
    A. Doganovich.
    A Childhood Encounter with Dostoevsky /
    D. S. Merezhkovsky.
    A Writer Remembers the Funeral /
    A. Kruglov.
    Dostoevsky in Literary Gatherings /
    A. Moshin.
    Dostoevsky in the Late 1870s /
    I. I. Ianzhul.
    Sketches of Dostoevsky /
    G. De Vollan.
    Memories of a Close Associate /
    Nikolai Strakhov.
    About the Deceased /
    Alexei Suvorin.
    Dostoevsky as a Psychologist: Notes by a French Literary Critic /
    M. De Vogue.
    A Brief Report About Dostoevsky\'s Death /
    B. Markevich.
    Russian Actors at Dostoevsky\'s Funeral /
    Vladimir Davydov.
    Dostoevsky\'s Last Public Appearances /
    P. Gnedich.
    Letters to the Bride About Dostoevsky\'s Funeral /
    I. P. Pavlov.
    From the Diary of a Composer /
    I. F. Tiumenev.
    \"I Wept as I Have Never Wept Over a Book Before\" /
    Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
    About Dostoevsky Reading His Works and His Funerals /
    Katerine Letkova.
    To the Memory of Dostoevsky /
    Anatoly Alexandrov.
    Several Words About Dostoevsky /
    Apollon Maikov
    
    Pt. II.
    Chronology of Dostoevsky\'s Life
    
    App. A.
    Dictionary of Persons Mentioned
    
    App. B.
    Translations and Abbreviations of Russian Periodical Titles.