Unknown transcripts of Fedor Dostoevsky’s wife, or on the history of one Lev Tolstoy’s manuscript

The article deals with the unique materials kept in the Dostoevsky archive, namely the documents containing shorthand notes of the writer’s wife. There is a description of the transcripts deciphered by Ceciliya Poshemanskaya as well as of those that are not deciphered yet. It is defined that the famous Leningrad stenographer had an unknown predecessor who had deciphered the letter of Anna Dostoevskaya addressed to S. A. Kashina. The main subject of the study became the unknown shorthand records on the back of draft letters of Anna Dostoevskaya to V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. For the first time they have been deciphered and proved to be two draft letters of Anna Dostoevskaya. The study involved the third transcript, deciphered by C. Poshemanskaya, but left non-attributed. All three transcripts date back to May 1911 and have a common theme of the return of Leo Tolstoy’s letter ended up in the hands of Dostoevsky shortly before his death and kept in the Dostoevsky archive for 30 years...