Адресные записи А. Г. Достоевской конца 1870-х - начала 1880-х гг

The publication introduces into scientific circulation 233 address entries made by the hand of Anna Dostoevskaya in her notebook, which is stored in the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (F. 100. No. 30707), and dated 1877-1882. The address records are provided in chronological order and internally split into two blocks: 1877-1880 and 1881-1882. The first block includes the addresses recorded during Dostoevsky’s lifetime, and this part of the publication can be considered a kind of family address book, since it contains a significant number of addresses of people from the writer’s entourage. The address records included in the second block were made after Dostoevsky’s death, however, many of them reflect the widow’s activities to perpetuate his memory and promote the writer’s creative legacy. These include the addresses of Orest Miller, who worked on the first posthumous biography of Dostoevsky in 1881-1883, the sculptor L. Bernstam, who casted the death mask of the deceased, the A. Morand bronze foundry, where the mask and bust of the writer were cast, etc. The abstract accompanying each address entry includes a local history commentary and biographical information. Based on the reference literature of the 1870s - 1880s, the full form of historical addresses, which were mostly recorded by Anna Dostoevskaya in an abbreviated form is restored, and modern addresses are also placed on the current maps of St. Petersburg and Moscow (taking into account the renaming of streets and the renumbering of buildings). The biographical part of the annotations includes brief information about the addressees, accompanied by links to printed and archival sources. The abstract also contains detailed information (including archival ciphers) about the surviving correspondence of these persons with the writer and his wife.