Marking the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Writer's Diary" told about at the Presidential Library

On January 26, 2022 the Presidential Library, as part of the Knowledge of Russia project, hosted a video lecture entitled "Writer's Diary: Author's Laboratory".

The event was the eleventh in the series of lectures Fyodor Dostoevsky - Conversation about Values to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the world famous writer.

The video lecture is available on the institution's YouTube channel.

Dmitry Bogach, PhD in Philology, Head of the Department of Digital Didactics at the St. Petersburg Radio Engineering College, told about Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's Journal, which is included in the golden collections of Russian journalism.

Video lecture participants learned about the genre originality of this monthly philosophical and journalistic publication, which includes not only journalistic but also artistic materials. They also tried to understand the essence of this "report on what was seen, heard and read" - special author's notes, in which Dostoevsky responded to various events from the perspective of a person engaged in literary activity.

The lecturer told how the events and situations significant for Dostoevsky, which received a publicistic commentary in the "Writer’s Diary" - an epidemic of voluntary deaths among young people, unfair court sentences, domestic violence, the Eastern question and the concept of the Russian world - were covered and evaluated in the author's work already in artistic form.

One can learn more about the writer from the materials of the special digital collection of the Presidential Library Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). It includes copies of the texts of the writer's works and materials about his life and career.

Interactive lessons and video lectures are regularly held at the Presidential Library. They are available on the institution's portal in the Multimedia lessons section and in the Video lecture to school section, as well as on the Presidential Library's YouTube channel, where records of past lectures and open lessons are presented.