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Dostoevsky

Page 138

by Frank, Joseph

“Petersburg Visions in Verse and Prose”

  Poor Folk

  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

  in House of the Dead

  in The Idiot

  in A Raw Youth

  Imperial Academy of Sciences

  impostorship, theme of: in Demons

  in The Double

  in Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

  individualism

  in European culture

  Insulted and Injured, The (Dostoevsky)

  Cleopatra character type in

  compassion in

  confessions in

  egoism in

  ennui in

  forgiveness in

  innocence in

  literary commentary in

  masochism in

  moral-psychological themes and

  narrative technique in

  reception of

  scenes from FMD’s life in

  self-deception/self-delusion in

  social humanitarianism in

  social-psychological themes and

  sources for/connections to

  strong vs. weak character types in

  suffering in

  writing/publication of

  intelligentsia

  Crimean War and

  dreamers
as character type of

  fusion with the people and

  gentry liberal

  isolation of

  mechtatelnost’ (dreaming) and

  of 1820s

  of 1830s

  of 1840s

  of 1860s

  of 1870s

  peasants/the people and

  pochvennichestvo and

  raznochintsy and

  Revolutions of 1848 and

  Slavophil ideas and

  interim ethics

  Irenaeus, Saint

  irrationalism: FMD’s

  in Crime and Punishment

  in Demons

  in House of the Dead

  in The Idiot

  in A Raw Youth

  in The Village of Stepanchikovo

  Slavophils and. See also faith

  Isaev, Alexander Ivanovich

  Isaev, Pasha/Pavel (FMD’s stepson)

  Cadet Corps placement of

  education of

  FMD’s finances and

  FMD’s letters to

  mother’s illness and

  relationship with stepmother

  Isaeva, Marya Dimitrievna. See Dostoevskaya, Marya Dimitrievna

  Ishutin, Nikolay

  Ishutin group

  Isidor, Metropolitan

  Ivanchina-Pisareva, Marya Sergeevna

  Ivanov, A. I.

  Ivanov, A. P. (FMD’s brother-in-law)

  Ivanov, Konstantin

  Ivanov, Vyacheslav

  Ivanova, Elena Pavlovna

  Ivanova, Marya Alexandrovna (FMD’s niece)

  Ivanova, Sofya (FMD’s niece)

  FMD’s letters to

  Ivanova, Vera Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister)

  Jackson, R. L.

  Jaclard, Charles Victor

  Jakobson, Roman

  James, Henry

  James, William

  Jastrzembski, I. F.

  Jesus Christ: as Don Quixote type

  human image of

  iconic representations of

  as ideal beauty

  as moral revolutionary

  nature of

  as positive ideal

  suffering of

  temptations of

  Jews. See also Yids/Yiddish ideas

  Jew Yankel, The (Dostoevsky)

  Job, Book of

  John, Gospel of

  John of Damascus

  Journal de Pétersbourg

  journalistic genres: feuilleton

  physiological sketch. See also literary genres; narrative techniques; novel (genre)

  Joyce, James

  Works: Ulysses

  judicial system

  Kametskaya, M. V.

  Kant, Immanuel

  Works: Critique of Practical Reason

  Critique of Pure Reason

  Karakozov, Dimitry: assassination attempt on Alexander II

  Karamzin, N. M.

  Works: History of the Russian State

  Letters of a Russian Traveller

  Poor Liza

  Karepin, Alexander (FMD’s nephew)

  Karepin, Peter (FMD’s brother-in-law)

  Karepina, Varvara Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister)

  Kashpirev (editor of Dawn)

  Katkov, Mikhail: assassination attempt on tsar and

  editing of FMD’s work and

  FMD’s finances and

  FMD’s letters to

  letters to

  Pushkin festival and

  social/political philosophy of

  surveillance of. See also Moscow Gazette; Moscow News; Russian Messenger, The

  Kavelin, K. D.

  Keats, John

 

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