The Dostoevsky Reading Room
Patrick KinvilleThe intellectual and cultural movements that shaped Dostoevsky’s life and work.
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A Dostoevsky Quote, Out of Context
I’m sure you’ve seen it on Facebook or TikTok, or maybe even here on Substack: a desert sunset, snow-capped mountains, or an AI-generated image of Dostoevsky, accompanied by the quote, “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the trut...
The Artist and the Prophet: The Friendship of Ilya Repin and Lev Tolstoy
The first installment of this series can be found here: Part I: 1880-1887
“But he [Tolstoy] is the kindest of souls, the most considerate of men and a true aristocrat in his manners and the distinctive elegance of his speech. How fluentl...
The Unwritten Novels Behind Dostoevsky’s Demons
In May 1869, just three months after the final chapters of The Idiot were published in the journal Russky Vestnik, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote a letter to his longtime friend and literary confidant, the poet Apollon Maikov, exclaiming “I have o...
“Better to Err in Mercy Than in Punishment”: Dostoevsky on Free Will and the Kornilova Trial
On October 15, 1876, a St. Petersburg court sentenced a young woman named Ekaterina Kornilova to two years and eight months of hard labor, followed by permanent exile in Siberia. Kornilova, who was pregnant at the time of the crime, was fou...
“A Perfectly Beautiful Human”: How Dostoevsky Created Prince Myshkin
In December 1867, with less than a month to submit the first five chapters of his new novel, The Idiot, to the Russian Messenger (Русский вестник) for serial publication, Fyodor Dostoevsky decided to throw out what he had written and start...
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Russian literature, art, and history, drawing on primary sources in the original Russian. I wander off sometimes.
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