Fedor Dostoevsky’s letters addressed to Victor Putsykovich: the history of a publication not taking place in “Russkoe obozrenie”

The article focuses on the question of the lost letters of F. M. Dostoevsky to V. F. Putsykovich, among others a number of letters of Putsykovich to the editor of the Journal “Russkoe Obozrenie” [“The Russian Review”] A. A. Aleksandrov in 1896-1897 get published (in short) and introduced into scientific discourse, that testify the preparation of four Dostoevsky’s letters for publication by V. F. Putsykovich at request of the editors office. As far as the given letters were not placed in the journal, the article makes an attempt to identify them by a range of indications kept in Putsykovich’ letters to the editor of “Russkoe Obozrenie” and to seek among them for the lost Dostoevsky’s letters. Based on the analysis of correspondence it gets asserted that Dostoevsky’s letters (three original versions and one copy) sent by V. F. Putsykovich to the editors office of “Russkoe Obozrenie” were not given back to their owner but kept in a personal archive of the journal’s editor A. A. Aleksandrov. Today they are kept in the Dostoevsky Fund of Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.