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A Raw Youth

“The Sentence”

Siberian Notebooks

Uncle’s Dream

The Village of Stepanchikovo

“White Nights”

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Dostoevsky, Marya Feodorovna (nee Nechaeva) (FMD’s mother)

Dostoevsky, Mikhail Andreevich (FMD’s father)

death/murder of

education’s importance for

family life and social background of

health and temperament of

religious piety of

Dostoevsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich (FMD’s brother)

arrest and release of

career of

cultural background of

daughter’s death and

death of

defense of
Young Russia
and

education of

family life and social background of

farewells before FMD’s exile

finances and

FMD’s letters to

genres favored by

literary philosophy of

mistress of

plan for bringing up siblings

Speshnev secret society and

translation projects of

Dostoevsky, Nikolay Mikhailovich (FMD’s brother)

Double, The
(Dostoevsky)

character of Golyadkin in

double motif in

guilt in

impostorship theme in

narrative technique in

moral responsibility in

reception of

self-awareness/self-image in

social-psychological themes in

social status in

sources for/connections to

split personalities in

writing of/publication of

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

dramatic farce (genre)

Dreamer, The
(Dostoevsky)

dreamer figure

FMD as

in “The Landlady”

in
Notes from Underground

in “White Nights”

“Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The” (Dostoevsky)

Druzhinin, A. V.,
Works
:
Polinka Sachs

Dubelt, L. V.

Dudyshkin, S. S.

Dumas, Alexandre,
fils

Works
:
La dame aux camelias

Durov, Sergey

dystopia (genre)

Eastern Orthodoxy.
See
Russian Orthodoxy

Easter observances

egoism

conquest of

of dying

FMD and

in
Crime and Punishment

in “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

in
The Idiot

in
The Insulted and Injured

in
The Life of a Great Sinner

in
The Village of Stepanchikovo

in
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

humanism and

individualism and

rational

Romantic

self-deification and

of suffering

of usurers.
See also
vanity

Eikhenbaum, B. M.

Eliseev, G. Z.

Emerson, Caryl

Engels, Friedrich

Condition of the Working Class in England

enlightened despotism.
See
tsarism

ennui

environment, behavioral influence of

epistolary novels.
See
sentimental epistolary novels

Epoch
(Dostoevsky)

equality: as Christian ideal

FMD and

in
Notes from Underground

in
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Social Darwinism and

Eternal Husband, The
(Dostoevsky)

European culture: assimilation of/into

character types in

as dying civilization

FMD and

in
Demons

in
Notes from Underground

in
A Raw Youth

in
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

individualism in

legal system in

materialism of

moral conscience in

Napoleonic Wars and

religious ideals in

Revolutions of 1848 and

Russo-Turkish War and.
See also
Westernizers

European Messenger
(periodical)

Evgenyev-Maksimov, V. E.

faith: FMD and

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Demons

in
The Idiot

in
Notes from Underground

in
A Raw Youth

internalization of

reason and.
See also
Christian ideals

familial chaos

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
A Raw Youth

family, feeling for

fallen woman.
See
prostitute

fantastic realism (genre)

fathers: in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Diary of a Writer

in “The Landlady”

in
Poor Folk

tsars as

in
The Village of Stepanchikovo

Fedotov, G. P.

Feodorov, Nikolay

Fet, A. A.

Works
: “Diana”

Feuerbach, Ludwig

Works
:
The Essence of Christianity

feuilleton
(genre)

FMD’s writing of

“fifty” trial of the

Figner, Vera

Filippov, Pavel

Filosofova, Anna

First International

Flaubert, Gustav,
Works
:
L’Éducation sentimentale

La légende de St. Julien l’hospitalier

Madame Bovary

Flerovsky, N.

Florovsky, George

folk tradition: FMD’s background and

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Demons

in “The Landlady”

Fonvizina, Natalya

FMD’s letters to

Forward
(periodical
Vpered
)

Fourier, Charles

Fourierism

Franco-Prussian War

Frantseva, Marie

fraternity

freedom

for FMD

in “The Landlady”

in Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

moral

psychic distress and

Pushkin festival as symbol of

temptations of Christ and.
See also
free will

freedom of the press

Free Russian Press
(Herzen)

free will.
See also
autonomy; freedom

French people

French Revolution

ideals of

French social Romanticism.
See also
Natural School (Naturalism); Russian Realism; social realism

Freud, Sigmund

Fridlender, G. M.

Frolenko, M. F.

Frolovna, Alyona: and peasant ethos

Gagarin, P. P.

Gaideburov, P. A.

Gambler, The
(Dostoevsky)

love-hate emotions in

character of fallen woman in

narrative technique in

Russian national character in

satire in

scenes from FMD’s life in

self-deception/self-delusion in

sources for/connections to

writing/publication of

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Gasfort, F. X.

Gautier, Théophile

Ge, N. N.,
Works
:
A Mysterious Evening

genre.
See
journalistic genres; literary genres; narrative technique; novel (genre)

“Gentle Creature, A” (Dostoevsky)

gentry-landowner literature

gentry liberal intelligentsia

German Romanticism

Gertsen, A. I.
See
Herzen, Alexander I.

Gesemann, Wolfgang

Geyden, Countess Elizaveta

Gide, André

Gieroglifov, A.

Giusti, Wolf

Glinka, M. I.,
Works
: “Kamarinskaya”

God.
See
Christian ideals; theodicy problem

Godwin, William

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Works
:
Faust

Gogol, N. V.: allusions to

assessments of

characters in

cited in Pushkin festival speeches

impact on FMD of

literary/aesthetic philosophy of

moral/religious philosophy of

narrative technique of

Works: Dead Souls

“Diary of a Madman”

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

The Inspector-General

“Nevsky Prospect”

“The Overcoat”

Selected Passages

Taras Bulba

“A Terrible Vengeance”

Testament

Golden Age: in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Demons

in “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

in
A Raw Youth

Golovinsky, V. A.

Goncharov, I. A.

Works
:
A Common Story

Oblomov

Gorchakov, Governor-General

Gorsky, Peter

Gospels (Bible)

John

Luke

Matthew

Gothic novel (genre)

Gradovsky, A. D.

Granovsky, T. N.

Grave, Gen. de

Great Russian, The
(leaflet)

Griboyedov, Alexander

Works
:
Woe from Wit

Grigorovich, D. V.: Beketov Circle and

as chronicler

FMD’s funeral and

FMD’s relationship with

literary career of

as schoolmate of FMD

Works: Anton Goremyka

The Village

Grigoryev, Apollon

Works
:
My Literary and Spiritual Wanderings

“The Paradoxes of Organic Criticism”

Grigoryev, Leonid

Grigoryev, N. P.

as author of “A Soldier’s Conversation”

Grossman, Leonid

guilt

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
The Double

FMD’s personal sense of

in “The Landlady”

in
Notes from Underground. See also
moral conscience; moral responsibility

Guseva, Pelagaya

hagiography (genre)

Hamlet: as literary archetype

in Russian culture

Hartmann, Eduard,
Works
:
Philosophy of the Unconscious

Hegel, G.W.F.

Works
:
History of Philosophy

Hegelian philosophy.
See also
Left Hegelianism

Herzen, Alexander I.: assessments of

assessments of FMD by

background of

Belinsky Circle and

as chronicler

as critic

daughter’s suicide and

death of

European revitalization and

FMD’s relationship with

generational tensions and

gentry liberal intelligentsia and

letters to

literary/aesthetic philosophy of

moral/religious philosophy of

Polish uprising of 1863 and

Revolutions of 1848 and

social/political philosophy of

surveillance of

Periodicals
:
The Polar Star

The Bell

The Free Russian Press

Works: Ends and Beginnings

Letters from France and Italy

Letters to an Old Comrade

Memoirs of a Young Man

My Past and Thoughts

On the Development of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia

From the Other Shore

The Superfluous Men and the Bilious

“The Thieving Magpie”

Who Is To Blame?

Herzen, Elizaveta (Liza)

Hildebrand, Bruno

historical romance (genre)

Hoffmann, E.T.A.

Works:
Kater Murr

Holbein, Hans, the Younger

Works
:
Dead Christ

holy fool
(yurodivy)

Homer

Works
:
The Illiad

“Honest Thief, An” (Dostoevsky)

hope

Houghton, Walter

House of the Dead
(Dostoevsky)

Antichrists in

bath scene in

censorship and

communal life in

flogging in

immortality of the soul in

irrationalism in

public readings

moral responsibility and

narrative technique in

peasant convicts in

Polish political prisoners in

psychic distress in

reception of

regeneration of FMD’s convictions and

scenes from FMD’s life in

social class in

sympathy in

time in

writing/publication of

Hugo, Victor

Works
:
Le dernier jour d’un condamné

Les misérables

Notre Dame de Paris

humanism: atheistic

egoism and

Feuerbachian

pan-

humility

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Demons

in
The Idiot

idea-feelings

in
A Raw Youth

Slavophil/Westernizer synthesis as

Idealist philosophy

Idiot, The
(Dostoevsky)

atheism in

fallen woman in

children in

Christ-like figures in

compassion in

death motif in

egoism in

faith/moral conscience
vs
. reason in

happiness in

humility in

immortality of the soul in

innocence in

irrationalism in

love theme in

narrative technique in

reception of

Roman Catholicism in

scenes from FMD’s life in

sources for/connections to

suicide in

sympathy in

writing/publication of

Ilyinsky, D. I.

immortality of the soul

FMD and

in
Diary of a Writer

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