When was the feuilleton by F. M. Dostoevsky “Triton” published? On the censorship history of the weekly journal “Grazhdanin” (“The citizen”) in 1878

The article clarifies the censorship history of the issues № 23-25 of the weekly “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”) in 1878, containing F. Dostoevsky’s feuilleton “Triton” (“Based on the country walks of Kuzma Prutkov and his friend”), the last known published work of the writer in this journal when it used to be published in St. Petersburg. Based on a number of documents found in the archives of St. Petersburg Censorship Committee and the General Directorate of the Press of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was established that the entire circulation of issues № 23-25 of “Grazhdanin” Journal (“The Citizen”), dated October 10, 1878, was arrested by censorship authorities and designated for destruction; the reason for the punitive measures was the material of the issue, which expressed sympathy to the disgraced publicist and public figure I. S. Aksakov. The editor and publisher of “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”) V. F. Putsykovich, who filed a petition to the Minister of the Interior A...