The Tikhomirovs and the Memorskys are Moscow Relatives of the Dostoevskys (from Genealogical Research)

The article introduces new archival materials concerning the Moscow branch of the Dostoevsky family tree, which were discovered by the author in the Central State Archive of Moscow (TSGA of Moscow). Previously unknown to researchers, eleven members of the genus belonging to the families of Anna Mikhailovna Kotelnitskaya-Tikhomirova and Evdokia (Avdotya) Mikhailovna Kotelnitskaya-Memorskaya, the sisters of the writer’s grandmother Varvara Mikhailovna Kotelnitskaya-Nechaeva, have been identified. Metric records have been published about the wedding of these great-aunts of Dostoevsky and about their deaths (the first in 1804, and the second in 1837), about the birth (and in some cases about the death) of their children. The initial information about their husbands, Andrei Gavrilovich Tikhomirov and Mikhail Fedorovich Memorsky, has been collected. The problem of determining the year of birth of persons born in Moscow earlier than 1777 is outlined. The difficulty of calculating the year of birth according to confessional records is also indicated. Based on archival research, corrections were made to the memoirs of the younger brother of the writer Andrei Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, and gaps were filled in the genealogical painting of the Moscow branch of the writer’s family, published in the fundamental “The Chronicle of the Generations of Dostoevskys” (2013).