New sources of the biography of Nikolay Shakhov, author of the daily “Grazhdanin” and correspondent of F. M. Dostoevsky

The research is the continuation of the previous investigations devoted to the attribution of an anonymous author of the publication “Pictures from officer life” in issue no. 41 of “Grazhdanin” in 1873. He was one of Dostoevsky's correspondents Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shakhov, the officer of the 1st Labe Guard of the Ekaterinoslav Regiment of His Majesty. In course of further researches in Russian archives new materials for the biography of the author who attracted attention of the editors of “Grazhdanin” Fedor Dostoevsky were found. The revealed sources of an epistolary and official character supplement Nikolay Shakhov's biography. This article expands the idea of him as about one of Dostoevsky's correspondents, the author of the daily, as well as about a remarkable individual who achieved wide popularity thanks to his active public work as a philanthropist.