Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii

Aims & Scope

The mission of the scientific journal "UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY" is to attract and support research into the biography and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The journal aims to open new perspectives in the study of the biography and work of the brilliant Russian writer. The tasks of the publication include: publication of new biographical and textual studies, unknown manuscripts and documents, critical articles from newspapers and magazines of the 19th-20th centuries related to F. M. Dostoevsky and his circle; ensuring access for readers and researchers from different countries to unpublished archival materials and little-known sources of the writer's work. The journal offers readers original biographical and textual studies, which present: unique materials (documents and photographs) from Russian and foreign archives related to Dostoevsky's life and work, his relatives and circle, manuscripts of Dostoevsky and his contemporaries, their chronological attribution, deciphering of faded, crossed-out and illegible entries, Dostoevsky's epistolary heritage and previously unpublished letters of his correspondents (with textual notes, dating and comments), attribution of letters from anonymous correspondents of Dostoevsky, new facts and hypotheses related to the writer's biography, various points of view, criticism of criticism, criticism of myths, pro et contra polemics, data from archival sources, genealogical research (study of metric books, registers, service records, personal files, etc.), stenograms of the writer's wife, their deciphering and research, forgotten and unknown memoirs about the writer, critical articles from periodicals of the 19th - first half of the 20th century, attribution of anonymous and pseudonymous articles in the journals "Vremya" (1861–1863) and "Epokha" (1864–1865), in the weekly "Grazhdanin" (1873–1874).

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