Dostoevsky in the darovoe. Based on the materials of the manuscript department of the Russian Literary History Museum named after V. I. Dahl

There is very little documentary evidence of Fyodor Dostoevsky's childhood and adolescence. Besides the “direct” evidence, there are also the so-called “indirect” ones, in which the pages of Dostoevsky’s biography or events related to the life of the writer's family are recorded indirectly. Such sources, first of all, are all sorts of official papers related to the property and economic sphere. In the Manuscript Archives of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature there are “search books” of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles in the village of Monogarovo, the analysis of which allowed us to make additional touches to the story of the daily life of Dostoevsky’s family, add some new dates into the “Chronicle of life and work of F. M. Dostoevsky”. The article gives an archaeographic description of the documents. A special attention is paid to the autographs of Maria Fyodorovna, Mikhail Andreevich and Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky dated back to the 1830s-1850s.