In search of the grave of Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Mikhail M. Dostoevsky died in the summer cottage in Pavlovsk on July 10th 1864 and was buried on the 13th of July at a local burying ground. All the attempts to find the tomb of the famous man of the pen and brother of the great writer remain vain until now, despite the fact that the memories of Nechaeva V. S., first director of the F. M. Dostoevsky Museum in Moscow, contain directions how to find his grave. She described the way to the gravesite based on the information provided by Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dostoevskaya, daughter of Mikhail Mikhailovich. In the 20th century Pavlovsk cemetery underwent devastation and damnification including the period of the occupation in 1941-1944. At the present the tomb of M. M. Dostoevsky is lost. Due to the critical analysis of sources, study of the cemetery history, its lay-outs of 1842, 1866, 1875, 1878, 1897, 1935, metric data books of the Court Church of Mary Magdalene in Pavlovsk we managed to detect a precise gravesite where it is necessary to erect a memorial sign.