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generational tensions in

Golden Age in

guilt in

humility in

impostorship, theme of, in

innocence in

legal system in

Legend of the Grand Inquisitor in

FMD’s letters to publisher explaining

masochism in

moral responsibility in

narrative technique in

quasi-double in

reception of

Satan, depiction of, in

satire in

scenes of FMD’s life in

self-sacrifice in

Socialism and

sources for/connections to

suicide in

temptations of Christ in

theodicy problem in

writing/publication of

Brown, Martha, FMD’s liaison with

Büchner, Ludwig: in
Fathers and Children

Works
:
Force and Matter

Buckle, Henry Thomas

Bunyan, John,
Works
:
Pilgrim’s Progress

Buonarotti, Philippe,
Works
:
La conspiration de Babeuf

bureaucratic scribes, portrayals of

burlesque anecdote (genre)

Butashevich-Petrashevsky, Mikhail.
See
Petrashevsky, M. V.

Butkov, Yakov

Buturlin, Count

Bykov, P. V.

Byron, George Gordon, 6th baron

Works
:
Cain

Lara

Manfred

Byronism/Byronic figures

Cabet, Etienne

Works
:
Voyage en Icarie

Le vrai Christianisme suivant J. Christ

capitalism

Carlyle, Thomas

Carracci, Agostino,
Works: The Head of the Young Christ

Carus, Carl Gustav,
Works
:
Psyche

Catechism of a Revolutionary
(Bakunin &/or Nechaev)

Catherine I, the Great

Catteau, Jacques

censorship:
The Citizen
and

The Contemporary

FMD and

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment

Diary of a Writer

Demons

Epoch

House of the Dead

Notes from Underground

freedom of the press

The Russian Word

Time

Cerny, Vaclav

Chaikovsky group

character types: bureaucratic scribe (
chinovnik
)

Cleopatra

Don Quixote

dreamer

FMD’s

“a perfectly good man”

guilt and

love-hate emotions in

pathology of

meek/peaceable

misanthrope

predatory

Russian wanderer

solid/strong

userer

weak.
See also
narrative technique
and FMD’s individual works

Chernosvitov, Rafael

Chernyshevsky, N. G.: allusions to

arrest of

background of

circle around

as critic

FMD’s relationship with

generational tensions and

gentry liberal intelligentsia and

literary/aesthetic philosophy of

Literary Fund event and

moral philosophy of

social/political philosophy of

woman question and

Works: The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality

The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy

“A Russian at a Rendezvous”

What Is To Be Done?. See also Contemporary, The

children: in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Demons

in
Diary of a Writer

in
The Idiot

in
A Raw Youth

sexual violation of

suffering of

Children
(Dostoevsky)

chinovnik. See
bureaucratic scribes

Christian ideals: art and

communist egalitarianism and

compassion and

equality and

FMD’s

fraternity and

hope and

immortality of the soul and

love, doctrine of, and

Populism and

religion in Russian life and

Romanticism and

Russian communes and

Russian Realism and

salvation and

Utopian Socialism and.
See also
faith

Citizen, The
(periodical
Grazhdanin
)

“cloud-castle” revolution: culmination of.
See also
gentry liberal intelligentsia

collectivism

communal living: European culture and

in
obshchinas

in phalansteries

in prisons

communism

communist egalitarianism

Confession, A
(Dostoevsky)

Conrad, Joseph

conscience.
See
moral conscience

Considérant, Victor

Works
:
La destinée sociale

Constant, V. D. (FMD’s sister-in-law)

constitutionalism
vs
. tsarism debate

Contemporary, The
(periodical
Sovremennik
): censorship and

closing of

contributors to

radical ideology of

owners/editors of

publication of FMD’s works in

conversion experiences

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Demons

regeneration of FMD’s convictions as.
See also
“Peasant Marey, The”

Corneille, Pierre

Cournant, Joseph

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoevsky)

ant-hill in

censorship and

children in

Cleopatra character type in

compassion in

confession in

Crystal Palace in

as detective story

egoism in

ennui in

faith/moral conscience
vs
. reason in

formative influences on

Golden Age in

guilt in

innocence in

irrationalism
in

legal system in

narrative technique in

Nihilism in

notebooks for

prostitute, character of, in

psychic distress in

quasi-double in

reception of

regeneration in

salvation in

scenes from FMD’s life in

self-deception/self-delusion in

self-deification in

self-sacrifice in

social humanitarianism in

sources for/connections to

suicide in

suffering in

time in

writing/explanation/publication of

Crimean War

Croce, Benedetto

“Crocodile, The” (Dostoevsky)

Crystal Palace

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Notes from Underground

Custine, Astolphe, marquis de

Danilevsky, N. G.

Works
:
Russia and Europe

Dante Alighieri

Darwin, Charles

Davydov, I. I.

Dawn
(periodical
Zarya
)

Day
(periodical
Den
’)

Decembrists

Demons
(Dostoevsky)

alienation of intelligentsia from Christian roots in

anti-Nihilism of

atheistic humanism in

beauty in

Byronic figures in

caricature of Turgenev in

censorship of

children in

Cleopatra character type in

epigraph to

faith in

folk tradition in

forgiveness in

generational tensions in

idea of Golden Age in

inspiration for fete scene in

history and myth in

humility in

impostors in

irrationalism in

moral/religious themes in

narrative technique in

Nechaev depicted in

quasi-double in

reception of

revolutionary philosophies in

Russian Orthodoxy in

salvation in

satire in

scenes from FMD’s life in

self-deification in

self-sacrifice in

Slavophilism in

sources for/connections to

Stavrogin’s confession in

suicide in

writing/publication of

determinism

in
The Brothers Karamazov

material

moral

in
Notes from Underground

physiological

Dézamy, Theodore

Diary of a Writer
(Dostoevsky)

Belinsky’s portrait in

censorship and

criminal trials in

Decembrist wives in

fathers in

immortality of the soul in

Jews in

journalism of

narrative technique in

political articles in

reception of

regeneration of convictions in

sources for/connections to

stories in

suicide in

woman question in

writing/publication of

xenophobia in

younger generation/children and

Dickens, Charles

Works
:
Bleak House

David Copperfield

The Pickwick Papers

Dimitry, Grand Duke

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dobrolyubov, Nikolay: assessments of FMD by

background of

gentry liberal intelligentsia and

letters to

literary/aesthetic philosophy of

as
raznochinets

social/political philosophy of

Turgenev and

Works:
“Downtrodden People”

“What Is Oblomovism?”.
See also Contemporary, The

Dolgorukov, V. A.

Dolgoruky, Prince

Dolgushin group

Dolinin, A. S.

Don Quixote character types

doppelganger motif: in
The Double. See also
quasi-double, motif of the

Dos Passos, John

Dostoevskaya, Alexandra Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister)

Dostoevskaya, Anna Grigoryevna (nee Snitkina) (FMD’s second wife)

background of

courtship/engagement of

deaths of children and

debt negotiations by

dictation of
The Gambler
and

FMD’s death and

health of

job skills of

marriage of

pension for

pregnancies/childbirths of

publishing firm established by

Dostoevskaya, Emilya Feodorovna (FMD’s sister-in-law)

Dostoevskaya, Lyubov Feodorovna (FMD’s daughter)

Dostoevskaya, Marya Dimitrievna (Isaeva) (FMD’s first wife)

cast as heroine of
Poor Folk

courtship of

death of

health of

marriage of

meeting of

Dostoevskaya, Sofya (FMD’s daughter)

Dostoevskaya, Varvara Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister).
See also
Karepina, Varvara Mikhailovna

Dostoevskaya, Vera Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister).
See
Ivanova, Vera Mikhailovna

Dostoevsky, Aleksey/Alyosha (FMD’s son)

Dostoevsky, Andrey Mikhailovich (FMD’s brother): arrest and release of

as chronicler

education of

family life and social background of

FMD’s letters to

interactions with peasants and

and living with FMD

religious background of

Dostoevsky, Feodor/Fedya (FMD’s son)

Dostoevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich: anti-semitism of

army service of

arrest/interrogation of

assessment of himself and his works

childhood memories of

child abuse rumors and

cult figure status of

cultural background of

death and funeral of

deaths of children and

education of

epilepsy of

exile of

extramarital affairs of

family life and social background of

finances of

gambling of

guardhouse imprisonment of

health of

literary aspirations of

photographs/portraits of

physical appearance of

publishing firm of

publishing permission for

reading’s importance to

religious background of

return from European “exile” of

return from Siberian exile of

sentencing/mock execution of

speeches of

superstitiousness of

surveillance of

temperament of

translation projects of

trips to Europe of

xenophobia of

Journals
:
Diary of a Writer

Time

Epoch

Works: Atheism
(intended)

Belinsky article (lost)

Boris Godunov
(lost)

The Brothers Karamazov

Children
(intended)

A Confession
(intended)

Crime and Punishment

“The Crocodile” (unfinished)

Demons

The Dreamer
(intended)

“The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

The Drunkards
(intended)

The Double

The Eternal Husband

Eugénie Grandet
(translation)

The Gambler

“A Gentle Creature”

“An Honest Thief”

House of the Dead

The Idiot

The Insulted and Injured

The Jew Yankel

“The Landlady”

Letters on Art
(lost)

The Life of a Great Sinner
(intended)

“A Little Boy at Christ’s Christmas Party”

“A Little Hero”

Mary Stuart
(lost)

“Mr.—bov and the Question of Art”

“Mr. Prokharchin”

Netotchka Nezvanova

Notes from Underground

“On the Coronation and Conclusion of Peace”

“On the First of July”

“The Peasant Marey”

“Petersburg Visions in Verse and Prose”

Poor Folk

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