In Search of F. M. Dostoevsky’s Missing Autographs (from the Collection of A. F. Koni)
- Authors: Andrianova I.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Petrozavodsk State University
- Issue: Vol 12, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 70-84
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2409-5788/article/view/304762
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/j10.art.2025.7861
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/TKBMQJ
- ID: 304762
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Abstract
Judicial figure A. F. Koni was a collector of literary relics — manuscripts, books, portraits of prominent personas of the second half of the 19th century, with whom he maintained relations. The owner bequeathed his collection to the Pushkin House, but its documents were dispersed among various archives in Russia, and some of them were lost. The article systematizes and describes F. M. Dostoevsky’s autographs from the A. F. Koni collection, a small number of which have been preserved to date, specifically, a gift inscription on a copy of the “A Writer’s Diary” from 1876, one letter from Dostoevsky to A. F. Koni and one to A. N. Pleshcheyev, and three letters to N. A. Nekrasov. The study suggests versions of their entry into various funds and archives after the death of the collector. Attention is heeded to Dostoevsky’s letters to Nekrasov that were preserved by A. F. Koni, and in whose fate literary critics V. E. Evgeniev-Maksimov and K. I. Chukovsky were involved. Whether A. F. Koni was a manuscript donor for the collection of autographs of artists and scientists collected by A. G. Dostoevskaya cannot be definitively confirmed. However, as their correspondence shows, he promised to supply the widow with books for the Museum of the Memory of F. M. Dostoevsky, as well as to introduce her to the letters of A. P. Bergeman about Marfusha, the girl in whose fate the writer and lawyer took an active part in 1877. The article introduces for the first time into scientific circulation the letters of A. P. Bergeman to A. F. Koni written in January — July 1877. They present unknown information about Marfusha and formulate the foundations of that “active love” by A. P. Bergeman, which Dostoevsky mentioned in a note in his drafts of the “А Writer’s Diary.” There may have been other Dostoevsky manuscripts in A. F. Koni’s collection, most notably the missing letters to Nekrasov. A subsequent search for them in archives and private collections is necessary.
About the authors
I. S. Andrianova
Petrozavodsk State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: yarysheva@yandex.ru
PhD (Philology), Director of the International Center for the Study of Dostoevsky of the Institute of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Classical Philology, Russian Literature and Journalism Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, 185910
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