Textual problems of early publications of Dostoevsky’s manuscripts

The article is devoted to the problems of textual criticism based on the material of the notebooks of F. M. Dostoevsky of the years 1864-1870 and their first publications. The research paper allows us to reveal the common factors of formation of the textological principles of preparing of Dostoevsky’s manuscript heritage for publishing. The work envisages the problems of the first reading of autographs and the specificity of repercussions of their linguistic characteristics in scientific publications of the 1930s. Also in the article the mistakes of interpretation of the original text are corrected, the principles of text graphic highlighting in print are clarified. In addition to the earlier publications the materials of the academic Complete works of Dostoevsky are taken into consideration. The article presents the results of the analysis of the creative process of the writer seen in the rough version. It also studies the problem of reconstruction of order of author’s notes in the first and subsequent publications of his autographs.