Cycle of lectures dedicated to Fyodor Dostoevsky launched in the Presidential Library

The video lecture “The Literary Debut of Fyodor Dostoevsky and His Novel “Poor Folk” within “Knowledge of Russia” series was held in the Presidential Library today, on February 19, 2019. The event opened the series of lectures "The Life and Work of Fyodor Dostoevsky", prepared by Professor Konstantin A. Barsht, Grand Ph.D. in  Philological Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Participants in the video lecture at Senate Square, 3, as well as specialists and guests at libraries in Barnaul, Kirov, Veliky Novgorod and Khanty-Mansiysk, who joined the event via videoconferencing, learnt about the history of F. Dostoevsky's family, the beginning of his literary career. The recording of the lecture is available via VKontakte social network on the official page of the Presidential Library, and soon it will be also added to the collections of the national electronic repository.

More video materials, dedicated to one of the greatest Russian writers, are available on the portal of the Presidential Library: “The Spiritual Birth of F. M. Dostoevsky in Siberia: The Book of Fate „Notes from a Dead House” lecture,  “Dostoevsky’s “Own Nest” documentary film, which spotlights the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky in Staraya Russa and the works he created there, to name just a few.

These videos have entered “Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) (The World of Dostoevsky)” collection, which may be studied on the portal of the Presidential Library. It consists of electronic copies of works of the great Russian writer, philosopher and publicist, materials about his life and oeuvre.

The work of the prominent lawyer and writer Anatoly Koni “1821–1921. Nekrasov. Dostoevsky" from the Presidential Library’s collections highlights Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first literary experience.

Materials, which make up the collection of the Presidential Library, cast light on the personality of Dostoevsky, and his civic stand. The collected issues of “Dnevnik Pisatelya” (The Writer’s Diary) (1877), a monthly philosophical and literary publication with one author, whose concept has no analogues, is also available on the portal.  

The publication “Luminaries of the Russian Thought: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Vlad. Solovyov (thoughts, aphorisms, paradoxes)” (1904), which contains philosophical thoughts of famous people, proves that Dostoevsky showed great interest in a human and his spirituality.

Other works available in the Presidential Library’s collections, such as “Aims of Russian People” (1894), “Essay about Fyodor Dostoevsky” (1906) by M. F. Taube, “The Legend of F. M. Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor” (1894), “Dostoevsky and Herzen in the History of Russian Consciousness” (1907) by T. Ya. Ganzhulevich, give some insights into Dostoevsky’s works, his views as a writer and citizen.

The electronic collection also features modern studies focused on the literary heritage of the classic writer.