Anna Dostoyevskaya
Anna Grigoryevna Dostoyevskaya ( born September 12, 1846 in Saint Petersburg, † June 9, 1918 in Yalta ) was the second wife of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and a famous Russian personality.
Life
As a student learned Grigoryevna Snitkina Anna, daughter of Ukrainian officials Grigori Ivanovich Snitkin and his Swedish wife Anna Maria, shorthand in school. She was so good that their teacher, they brokered to Dostoevsky to this to assist the players during the writing of his new novel.
It began on 4 October 1866. Dostoevsky had gambling debts, and his publisher Stellowski called for the completion until November 1, under penalty of a high penalty. The delivery time was - although Stellowski St. Petersburg left on October 31, just to make it impossible for the delivery - respected as the stenographer Anna came up with the idea to deposit the manuscript with a notary. Immediately after this event her Dostoevsky made a motion, introduced her to his family and married her on 15 February 1867.
Dostoevsky's love affair with Polina Suslova was already gone before the end, just a short engagement with the writer Anna Korwin- Wassiljewna Krukowskaja, later the Socialist Victor Jaclard married. Also the flirting, he had in the fall and winter 1864/65 with Martha Brown was terminated.
In April, she fled from his creditors to Germany, Italy and Switzerland; she had sold her jewelry for travel money. In Baden -Baden Dostoevsky playful the little money and even Anna's clothes at roulette. Through his work in Geneva, where the couple lived a year Dostoevsky was able to recover financially again.
Returned in 1871, the couple returned to Russia, and Anna took over all her husband's financial and contractual matters, which in turn gave the games. Until 1879, she managed to pay off all his debts, he eventually died in 1881, the couple had several children together. :
- Sofia ( 22 February to 24 May 1868)
- Lyubov (1869-1926)
- Fyodor (1871-1922)
- Alexei (1875-1878)
Dostoyevskaya closed her book memories from shortly before her own death; is " the common life history in the 14 years during which [ Dostoevsky ] until his death in 1881 [ her ] lived with " and is " of high interest in the topic of self-experience in epilepsy ".
Publications (selection )
- Memories. Translated from Russian by Brigitta Schröder. With an afterword by Gerhard Dudek. In 1976.
Literary reception
Leonid Zypkins 1982 published novel A Summer in Baden -Baden portrays Dostoyevsky and his relationship with his second wife Anna on her trip to Germany in 1867. Framing these fictional scenes by the search of a first-person narrator in the 1970s, the biographical for his characterizations of materials, uses the diary and the memories of Anna and fictional characters and situations of the writer. The Russian title ljubit Dostojewskowo ( Dostoevsky love ) refers to both the author Zypkin as well as on the ratio of the twenty -years-younger woman to her equipped with a difficult personality, troubled man whose personal and literary life she organized. He is the center of her life, since she was his stenographer as 25 -year-old in St. Petersburg in admiration of the famous poet. With him she is looking for a stop, which is symbolized by a ship's mast in the novel, to which it clings in difficult situations.
Secondary literature
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The letters of Dostoyevsky to his wife. London, Constable & co. Ltd.. , 1930. OCLC 1918208
- SV Belov: Zhena ︠ a ︡ pisateli: ︠ a ︡ i ︠ Posledni a ︡ li ︠ u ︡ bov FM Dostoevskogo. Moscow: Sov. Rossii ︠ a ︡, 1986. OCLC 15,622,209
- Nadezhda Smirnova - Gureva: Anna ︠ a ︡ Dostoevskai: roman. Moscow: Sovremennyĭ Pisatel, 1993 ISBN 5265023089.
- N. F. Budanova; Institute Russkoi literatury ( Pushkinskiĭ dom ); et al: . Biblioteka F. M. Dostoevskogo: Opyt ︠ s ︡ ii reconstructions: Nauchnoe opisanie. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2005 ISBN 5020285544.
- Anatolii Donov: Мария Констант, жена Достоевского. St. Petersburg: Omega / ArtStrim, 2004 ISBN 5983610090.