F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S
BIOGRAPHY
1819
Marriage of the writer’s parents,
Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky (1788-1839),
doctor at the
Marinsky Hospital for the Poor in
Moscow, and Maria Fyodorovna Nechaeva
(1800-1837), daughter of a Moscow merchant Fyodor Timofeevich Nechaev
1820
October
13/25
Birth of the writer’s elder
brother Mikhail
1821
October 30/November
11
Birth of M.A. and M.F.Dostoevskys second son – Fyodor
(Moscow)
1831
M.A. Dostoevsky bought a small estate
in the district of Kashir, province of Tula, which consisted of two small
villages -–Darovoye and Chermashnya (bought in 1832). Since then, up to his
departure to St.
Petersburg, Dostoevsky spent each summer at Darovoye
1833
January
Mikhail and Fyodor joined the semi-boarding
school of N.I.
Drashusov (Souchard), where they had courses every
morning and were back to lunch
1834
The two elder brothers entered the
Moscow private
boarding school of Leonty Ivanovich Chermak
1837
January 29/February
10
Death of Pushkin, that struck
profoundly Dostoevsky. He learned the news only after a
month
February 27/March
11
Death of Maria Fyodorovna
Dostoevskaya
May
The two elder brothers moved to
Petersburg to enter the
Military Engineering Academy. Before the Academy, they entered
the preparatory boarding school of captain K.F. Kostomarov
July 1/13
M.A. Dostoevsky resigned and soon
after moved to his estate
1838
January
16/28
F.M. Dostoevsky admitted to the
Military Engineering Academy
June
Mikhail Dostoevsky moved to Revel to join an Engineering
detachment
1839
June
Death of Mikhail Andreevich
Dostoevsky, murdered (after the family legend) by his
serfs
1841
August
Fyodor Dostoevsky promoted to
field ensign-engineer and transfered to the lower officer’s class. He was
afforded an opportunity to live outside the Engineering Academy and rented an
apartment at Karavannaya Street near Manege
1844
January
Fyodor Dostoevsky translated
Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet
In winter he conceived the novel
Poor
Folk
August
Dostoevsky tendered his
resignation
1845
End of May
Dostoevsky read Poor Folk to Dmitry Grigorovich, who
passed the novel to Nekrasov. Nekrasov and Belinsky delighted with the Poor Folk. Even before the publication
of the novel, Dostoevsky’s name became known in the
Petersburg literary
circles
1846
January
Publication of Petersburg Collection, edited by
Nekrasov, that included Dostoevsky’s novel Poor Folk
February
Publication of the novella The Double
(published in N 2 Notes
from the Fatherland)
October
The short story Mister Prokharchin
(published in N 10 of Notes from the
Fatherland)
December
Dostoevsky worked on Netochka Nezvanova
Acquaintance with Apollon and
Valerian Maikov, A.N. Pleshcheev, M.V. Petrashevsky
1847
January
Novel in 9 Letters published in N 1 of the journal The
Contemporary
Dostoevsky began to assist to
gatherings in Petrashevsky’s home which take place on Fridays. He got access to
Petrashevsky’s collection of books
October
Beginning of the publication of
the novella Landlady (Notes of the
Fatherland)
1848
January
Publication A Faint Heart in the N2 of the Notes of the
Fatherland
December
Publication White Nights and the short story A Jealous Husband in the N12 of the Notes of the Fatherland. Dostoevsky close to N.A. Speshnev. A particular secret
society organized under the guidance of Speshnev, which includes some of the
most determined of the participants of Petrachevsky gatherings: Dostoevsky, N.A.
Mordvinov, N.A Mombelli, P.N. Filippov, N.P. Grigoriev, V.A. Milutin. The society undertakes “to realize a coup in
Russia”
1849
Beginning of the
publication of the Dostoevsky’s novel Netochka Nezvanova in N1 of the Notes of the
Fatherland
April 23/May 5
Early in the morning the members of the
Petrachevsky circle were arrested. Dostoevsky arrested at 4
a.m. In all,
that night, “36 persons of different rank” were arrested. Dostoevsky imprisoned
in the cell No 9 of the “secret House” of Alexeevsky
ravelin.
December 22/January
2
Execution at the
Semyonovsky
Square. Reprieve of the execution and reading
of the pardon rescript
1850
January
9/21
On their way to the
Omsk prison, Dostoevsky, S.F.Durov and
F.L.Yastrjembsky arrive to Tobolsk. At the jail of
Tobolsk Dostoevsky and Durov receive visit of the wifes of Decembrist insurgents
– N.D.Fonvizina and P.E.Annenkova with her daughter. Fonvizina provides
Dostoevsky with a copy of The New Testament in which binding is hidden 10
rubles.
January 23/February 4
Dostoevsky and Durov arrive to the
Omsk
fortress
1850-1854
Dostoevsky –convict at the
Omsk
fortress
1854
January 23/February 4
Dostoevsky leaved the prison. He
was enrolled as a private in the troops of a Siberian Independent
Corps
End of February
Dostoevsky transferred to the city
of Semipalatinsk, as a private in the Seventh Line Batallion
spring
Acquaintance with Alexander
Ivanovich Isaev and Maria Dmitrievna Isaev, with their son Pavel
1855
March
The accession to the throne of
Alexander II marked by the promulgation of the “Imperial manifesto”, in
connection with which was published the Order of “privileges and favours”
regarding “those officials of the Military department who fell into
crimes”
middle of May
A.I. Isaev was given assignment to the town of
Kuznetsk,
province of Tobolsk. Departure of the Isaev from
Semipalatinsk
August
Death of A.I.
Isaev
1856
Acquaintance and
friendship with Ch.Ch. Valikhanov
November
Dostoevsky proposed marriage to
M.D. Isaeva and obtained her consent
1857
February
6/18
Marriage of Dostoevsky and M.D. Isaeva in
Odigitriev Church in the town of
Kuznetsk. On their way back from Kuznetsk
Dostoevsky had a strongest attack, the doctor ascertained “
a real epilepsy”
April 17/29
By an imperial decree to the
Governing senate, Dostoevsky was assigned back his hereditary nobility. That
allowed him to publish his works. The
Little Hero was published in the No
8 of the Notes of the
Fatherland
1858
Before March
8/20
Dostoevsky tendered his
resignation
1859
March
Apperance of the novella My Uncle’s Dream in the N3 of the Russian Word. Dostoevsky received
the long-awaited resignation. The writer put under secret surveillance. He chose
Tver as a place of residence
November-December
Publication of The Village of Stepanchikovo and his
inhabitants in the N 11-12 of the Notes of the
Fatherland
December 20/January 1
Having been authorized to reside
in Petersburg, Dostoevsky with his family moved to
Petersburg
1860
spring
Publication of The Works of F.M. Dostoevsky in 2
volumes.
September
1/13
Publication of the “Introduction”
and of the 1st chapter of the Notes from the House of the Dead in the
journal Russian World, N
67
1861
January
Appearance of the 1st issue of the
journal Time with the first part of
the novel The Insulted and the Injured
and “a number of articles on Russian literature”. Continuation of
publication of Notes from the House of
the Dead in the Russian
World
1862
June 7/19
Dostoevsky’s trip abroad for the first
time. Within 2,5 months he visits more than 20
cities of the Western Europe (Berlin, Dresden, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Paris, London, Florence, Turin, Geneva, Vienna, and
others)
1863
May 24/June 5
Suppressing of the journal Time (for the article “The Fatal
question”)
4/16 August 4/16 –by October
21/November 3
Dostoevsky leaves abroad from
Petersburg (Berlin, Wiesbaden, Paris, Baden-Baden, Turin, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Florence, Hambourg,
Dresden, Livorno…)
1864
January 24/February
5
Mikhail Dostoevsky authorized to
publish the journal The Epoch
March
Appearance of an issue of the
journal The Epoch with Notes from
Underground
April 15/27
Death of Maria Dostoevskaya, the
writer’s wife
July 10/22
Death of Mikhail Dostoevsky, the writer’s older
brother. The writer continues the editing of The Epoch. Enormous debts left after his
brother’s death fell upon him. Dostoevsky assumes all of Mikhail’s
debts
1865
After July
16/28
Saving himself of the creditors,
Dostoevsky leaved from Petersburg in Europe
July 29/August 10
Beginning of work on the novel Crime and
Punishment
1866
January
Beginning of the publication of
the novel Crime and Punishment from
the issue n1 of the journal the Russian
Messenger .
The publication lasted the whole year long
October
4/16
The first visit to Dostoevsky
of Anna
Grigorievna Snitkina, a 20-years old stenographer, the writer’s future wife.
Dostoevsky began to dictate her his novel The Gambler
October 31/November 12
Completion of work on the novel
The Gambler
November 3/15
Dostoevsky requested Anna to
stenograph the last part of the novel Crime and
Punishment
November 8/20
Dostoevsky proposed marriage to A.
G. Snitkina. She consented joyfully
1867
February
15/27
Marriage of Dostoevsky and A.G.
Snitkina in the Trinity-Izmailovsky Cathedral
April 14/26
Dostoevsky and his wife leaved abroad,
presumably, for several months. But they would stay in Europe for more than four years
(Berlin, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Basle, Geneva, Vevey,
Milan, Florence)
1868
January
Beginning of the publication of
the novel The Idiot (Russian
Messenger)
February 22/March 5
Birth of Sofia, daughter of the
Dostoevskys, in Geneva
May
12/24
Death of
Sofia Dostoevskaya. The writer deeply affected by his daughter’s
death
1869
January
Dostoevsky completed work on the
novel The Idiot
September
14/26
Birth of Dostoevsky’s second
daughter – Lyubov
1871
January
Beginning of the publication of
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