Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Достоевский; * November 25, 1820 in Moscow, † July 22, 1864 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian journalist, writer, translator and literary critic. He was the eldest brother of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Life and work
Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's father Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky (1789-1839), was a doctor at the Moscow Marijinski clinic for the poor. The mother, Maria Fyodorovna, born Netschajewa (1800-1837), had married him on 14 January 1820.
Until 1937, Mikhail and born only 13 months after he Fyodor were educated and trained in common: first at home and then in Moscow boarding. By the will of the Father Mikhail would like Fyodor aim to study at the St. Petersburg Military engineering university. He was not supposed to be there but could the same training start at another St. Petersburg College and was transferred to a few months to Tallinn for the local school for military engineers.
In 1842 he married Emilia von Ditmar, with whom he had several children. As the Home Office in 1849 Petraschewzen smashed, Mikhail was also arrested shortly after his brother, two months later, but released.
In 1861 he founded for Fyodor, who could not journalistically appear, the monthly magazine Vremya, which quickly became very popular and in the first year had 2300 subscribers. Because of a supposedly anti-government article by Nikolai Strakhov the magazine on May 24, 1863, prohibited. In January 1864, the brothers founded a successor sheet Epocha ( Эпоха, "epoch "), which, however, did not reach the success of Vremya. When Mikhail died unexpectedly in the same year, his brother could not hold the magazine.
Publications
In the 1840s, Mikhail Dostoyevsky in the journal Annals Otechstvennye ( " Fatherland Notes" ) published several short stories:
- Docka (Russian: Дочка, a daughter), 1848
- Gospodon Svetelkin ( Господин Светелкин, Mr. Swetelkin ), 1848
- Vorobej ( Воробей, Sparrow ), 1848
- Dva starička ( Два старичка, Two Old Men ), 1849
- Pjat'desjat let ( Пятьдесят лет, fifty years), 1850
- Staršaja i men'šaja ( Старшая и меньшая, the elder and the younger), 1851
Mikhail Dostoevsky has also some German classics translated into Russian, including the robbers and Don Carlos.