Boris Tikhomirov’s Fateful Meetings: in Memory of an Outstanding Scientist

The publication is dedicated to the life and work of Boris Nikolaevich Tikhomirov (1952–2025), an outstanding researcher of F. M. Dostoevsky’s scientific biography and work. With his death, Russian philological science suffered a huge, irreparable loss. The scientist’s biography is full of amazing, yet not accidental events and meetings, incredible discoveries and outstanding achievements in philology. B. N. Tikhomirov’s great self-sacrificing work in studying Dostoevsky’s legacy is not limited to his innovative scientific works and the organization of exhibitions at the writer’s Literary Memorial Museum in St. Petersburg. He actively worked to popularize Dostoevsky’s work in the global cultural space: he gave open lectures to museum visitors, advised screenwriters and directors who made films about Dostoevsky and his family, and made presentations at national conferences and international symposiums. On October 6, 2025, the fortieth day after the researcher’s death, his colleagues discussed the ways to preserve the memory of the president of the Russian Dostoevsky Society, his works and activities. Memorial activities include compiling a bibliography of B. N. Tikhomirov’s works and electronic library, preparing reviews of his books, publishing unpublished materials, systematizing his commentary from various publications of Dostoevsky, videos of his speeches at lectures and conferences, continuing to study Dostoevsky’s Moscow, the writer’s genealogy and the archive of A. G. Dostoevskaya, and organizing the 50th anniversary conference “Dostoevsky and World Culture” dedicated to the memory of the scientist (November 9–11, 2025). The publication uses personal correspondence between I. S. Andrianova and B. N. Tikhomirov, as well as materials from his social media page.