Хроника рода Достоевского (1506-1933)

The book was on Glavlit's list of prohibited literature. This publication is a collection of materials about the life, everyday life and character traits of F.M.’s relatives. Dostoevsky, starting with those who lived in the 16th century. his distant ancestors and ending with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of himself and his brothers and sisters. The persistent and painstaking work of the collector of materials and the author of the study, which initially had relatively narrow genetic and characterological tasks in mind, ultimately led to a natural expansion of its scope and to the inclusion in the book of documents that also give a vivid picture of the social processes taking place in a large intelligentsia family , associated with the most diverse layers of the old Russian bourgeoisie. A fresh person, when meeting this family, is especially struck by the extraordinary richness and variety of all kinds of pathological features in its representatives. At the end of the book M.V. Volotsky gives experience in the characterological study of the Dostoevsky family. With illustrations.

Foreword by P.M. Zinoviev.

"Records of the past. Memories and letters" edited by S.V. Bakhrushin and M.A. Tsyavlovsky.