It's hard to be a good wife. Can't imagine what it's like to be a wife brilliant man, and also good. Give the genius happiness and peace. Give all of yourself for peace, love and harmony in the family, while remaining a person. Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya managed to do the impossible.

Stenographer

Netochka Snitkina had to enroll in a stenographer's course in order to later help the family financially. And so, as the best student, she was offered to work with Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose works she read.

Dostoevsky had only 26 days to write new novel and not get into bondage to the publisher. A twenty year old girl famous writer caused a double impression. On the one hand - a genius, and on the other - unhappy, abandoned, lonely, from whom everyone needs only one thing - money. From pity one step to love, at least for a Russian woman. And Dostoevsky, feeling warmth, opened up to the girl in all his sorrows. But they managed to work on the novel and successfully completed it on time. However, the publisher went into hiding so as not to accept the manuscript. Anna Grigorievna showed remarkable self-control and handed over the manuscript to the police department. The duel with the publisher was won.

The end of their work upset both of them, and Fyodor Mikhailovich offered to cooperate on next thing. Moreover, he shyly made a proposal to the girl to become his wife. And so, in 1867, Netochka Snitkina became the true and necessary friend of a genius.

Complex ambiguous feelings

Anna Dostoevskaya first of all felt sorry for her husband, adored his talent and wanted to make his life easier, in which his relatives angrily interfered. Fyodor Mikhailovich offered to leave Petersburg, but there was no money. Anna Dostoevskaya almost without hesitation pawned her dowry - and here they are, first in Moscow, and then in Geneva. There they stayed for four years. In Baden, Fedor Mikhailovich lost absolutely everything they had, right down to his wife's dresses. But, realizing that this was a disease, Anna Dostoevskaya did not even reproach her husband. The Lord appreciated her humility and cured the player forever from his all-consuming passion. They had a daughter, but she died three months later. Both suffered endlessly. But the Lord sent them a second daughter. Together with her, they returned to their homeland. And in the first week in Russia they had a son.

character changes

Everyone noted that Anna Dostoevskaya became resolute and strong-willed. The writer has accumulated huge debts. The young wife undertook to unravel complex material matters, freeing the impractical writer from this routine. Dostoevsky could only marvel at the stubbornness and inflexibility of the character of a woman who loves and protects her family.

She managed everything: work fourteen hours a day, take shorthand, correct, listen to new chapters of the novel at night, write a diary, monitor her husband’s shattered health ... And when her third child appeared, she decided to publish the works herself.

family business

Publishing and bookselling, with the organizational skills of Anna Grigorievna, went successfully. Isn't this the personal achievement of Anna Dostoevskaya? Success inspired the writer. But Anna Grigoryevna never lost sight of the little things either. When they went somewhere, she stocked up on a blanket to wrap her husband, took cough medicine, handkerchiefs. All this is imperceptible, but irreplaceable, and is valued by the spouse as the highest manifestation of love.

But the little one is dying. The depth of Fyodor Mikhailovich's despair is indescribable. Anna Grigoryevna hid her grief as best she could, although her hands fell, she sometimes even could not deal with two children - Lyubov and Fedya. And they go to the elders in Optina Pustyn. Then this episode will be included in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov".

Big job

Of course, it doesn't come by itself. Behind him is tireless work on himself, which Anna Grigoryevna did. She humbled her natural impetuosity, because of which quarrels could and did occur. But they always ended in reconciliation, and Fyodor Mikhailovich fell in love with her with new force. And his inner life was difficult and stressful. It was at times small in addition sick and demanding. That is, the feelings of the spouses did not become stagnant in everyday life, but were full of mutual care.

Collecting stamps

Even when they were in Geneva, the young couple argued. Fedor Mikhailovich assured that a woman is not capable of doing anything for a long time. To which, flaring up, Anna replied that she would start collecting stamps and would not give up this occupation. Bought right here stationery store klyasser and at home proudly pasted the first stamp from the letter that had come to them. The hostess, seeing this, gave her old stamps.

This is how Anna Dostoevskaya laid the foundation for the collection. The most interesting thing is that she was engaged in philately for the rest of her life. But what happened to the collection after her death, no one knows.

Irreparable grief

Fyodor Mikhailovich was a very sick man. Emphysema brought him to the grave in 1881. Anna Grigorievna was thirty-five years old. Everyone spoke about the genius that the country had lost, but everyone forgot about his widow, who lost happiness and love with him. She vowed to live for their children and to publish his collected works, and created his museum. Her biography testifies to this. Anna Dostoevskaya served her husband even after his death.

Anna Grigoryevna herself died in 1918 in the Crimea. She was seriously ill, she was starving, she was already beginning to Civil War, and she continued to parse her husband's manuscripts, creating an archive of Fedor Mikhailovich. This is how Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya lived her life. Her biography is both simple and complex at the same time.

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Epicurus

Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich

(1821-1881) Russian writer

At the end of January 1881, Dostoevsky fell seriously ill and began to bleed from his throat. On the morning of January 28, the writer's wife Anna Grigorievna, waking up at seven in the morning, saw that Dostoevsky was looking in her direction. Anna Grigorievna asked him about his health, to which he replied:

You know, Anya, I have been awake for three hours now and I keep thinking, and only now have I clearly realized that I am going to die today.

My dear, why do you think that? - objected Anna Grigoryevna in terrible anxiety. - After all, you are better now, the blood is no longer flowing, obviously, a “plug” has formed, as Koshlakov said. For God's sake, do not torture yourself with doubts, you will still live, I assure you!

No, I know, I must die today. Light a candle, Anya, and give me the gospel.

“This Gospel,” recalls A. G. Dostoevskaya, “was presented to Fyodor Mikhailovich in Tobolsk (when he was going to hard labor) by the wives of the Decembrists ... Fyodor Mikhailovich did not part with this holy book during all four years of his stay in hard labor. Subsequently. ... he often, thinking or doubting something, opened this Gospel at random and read what was on the first page (to the left of the reader). And now Fyodor Mikhailovich wished to check his doubts on the Gospel. He himself opened the holy book and asked read.

The Gospel of Matthew was revealed. Ch. III, Art. II: "John held him back and said: I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me? But Jesus answered him: do not hold back, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill great righteousness."

You hear - "do not hold back" - it means I will die, - said the husband and closed the book.

I couldn't stop myself from crying. Fyodor Mikhailovich began to console me, spoke sweet kind words to me, thanked me for happy life that he lived with me. He entrusted children to me, said that he believed me and hoped that I would always love and protect them. Then he said to me the words that a rare husband would say to his wife after fourteen years of marriage:

Remember, Anya, I have always loved you dearly and have never cheated on you, even mentally!

I was touched to the depths of my soul by his sincere words, but also terribly alarmed, fearing that the excitement would do him harm. I begged him not to think about death, not to upset us all with my doubts, I asked him to rest, to sleep. The husband obeyed me, stopped talking, but it was clear from his peaceful face that the thought of death did not leave him and that he was not afraid of the transition to another world.

At about nine in the morning, Fyodor Mikhailovich fell asleep calmly, not letting go of my hand from his. I sat without moving, afraid that any movement would disturb his sleep. But at eleven o'clock the husband suddenly woke up, got up from the pillow, and the bleeding resumed. I was in complete despair, although I tried my best to look cheerful and assured my husband that there was not much blood and that, probably, like on the third day, a “plug” would form again. In response to my soothing words, Fyodor Mikhailovich only shook his head sadly, as if fully convinced that the prediction of death would come true that same day. In the middle of the day, relatives and strangers again began to come, again they brought letters and telegrams ...

I did not leave my husband for a minute all day; he held my hand in his and said in a whisper: "Poor ... dear ... with what I leave you ... poor, how hard it will be for you to live? .." Several times he whispered: "Call the children." I called, my husband held out his lips to them, they kissed him and, on the orders of the doctor, immediately left, and Fyodor Mikhailovich followed them with a sad look. Two hours before his death, when the children came to his call, Fyodor Mikhailovich ordered to give the Gospel to his son Fedya...

About seven o'clock a lot of people gathered in our living room and dining room and were waiting for Koshlakov, who visited us around that hour. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Fyodor Mikhailovich shuddered, rose slightly on the sofa, and a streak of blood again painted his face. We began to give Fyodor Mikhailovich pieces of ice, but the bleeding did not stop ... Fyodor Mikhailovich was unconscious, the children and I knelt at his head and cried, with all our strength restraining ourselves from loud sobs, as the doctor warned that the last feeling, what leaves a person is hearing, and any disturbance of the silence can slow down the agony and prolong the suffering of the dying. I held my husband in my hand and felt that the pulse was beating weaker and weaker. At eight twenty-eight in the evening Fyodor Mikhailovich passed away into eternity.

A happy turn in the difficult fate of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky occurred at a time when he was in a difficult situation: in an unrealistic short time I had to write a new novel. I had to hire a young but experienced stenographer, Anna Snitkina. It was this woman - Anna Snitkina - who became the second wife of Dostoevsky.

Dostoevsky's assistant successfully completed not only the St. Petersburg courses for stenographers, but also the Mariinsky women's gymnasium, at the end of which she received a large silver medal. Studying at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Higher Pedagogical Courses had to be interrupted due to the illness of his father, who died soon after. Joint daily work famous writer and a twenty-year-old brilliantly educated girl eventually led not only to the writing of the novel The Gambler, but also to the subsequent family life.

The beginning of the family life of Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina

The wedding ceremony of Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina took place in the Izmailovsky Cathedral on February 15, 1867. Exactly ten years ago, also in the month of February, Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in front of the altar of a church in the city of Kuznetsk with another woman whom he long and passionately sought - Maria Isaeva. But the first wife died of consumption, and now the writer was destined to go through life with another companion - loving, understanding and very worthy in all respects. So, Anna Snitkina became the second wife of Dostoevsky.

But this marriage was negatively perceived by Dostoevsky's stepson, therefore married couple in order to avoid family disagreements and cement their relationship, they had to go abroad.

Even before leaving for Europe, Anna Snitkina had to deal with Dostoevsky's epileptic seizure. And it happened not at home, but visiting my sister. Dostoevsky's seizure was so terrible and was accompanied by such an inhuman scream that his sister and son-in-law fled the living room in fear. For the first time in their lives, all those present saw the epilepsy with their own eyes, and only Anna Snitkina was not at a loss and rendered all possible assistance to her husband. After bouts of illness, Dostoevsky spent a very long time returning to normal condition he felt depressed and lost. Epilepsy not only overshadowed family life, but also was inherited by her son Alyosha.

The second shock for Dostoevsky's young wife was her husband's unbridled passion for gambling. Back in time honeymoon in Dresden, he left Anna Snitkin alone for a week, and he himself left to try his gambling fortune in Homburg, from where he constantly sent letters asking him to send money. This was the beginning of future financial losses, which are simply inevitable with such a destructive passion.

Together they went to the roulette city of Baden-Baden. In just a week, Dostoevsky lost all the money available, so that in the future he had to pawn jewelry. Dostoevsky's wife, Anna Snitkina, especially regretted the unredeemed wedding gift husband - brooches and earrings interspersed with diamonds and rubies. The money sent from St. Petersburg by Anna's mother also went to the game. Dostoevsky's weakness consisted in the fact that he could not stop at the right moment and played until the last thaler.

Dostoevsky's first wife was Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva, who died of consumption, and with whom family relationships were heavy. Dostoevsky's second wife Anna Snitkina.

In the autumn of 1867, this gambling nightmare ended - the couple moved to Geneva, where Dostoevsky began writing the novel The Idiot.

Sorrows and joys alternated, as in any family life, but in 1868 the couple had to experience terrible grief - daughter Sonya, who was born in Geneva, died three months later. In 1869, the second daughter, Lyuba, was born in Dresden, and two years later the Dostoevsky couple, who lived in Italy and completely yearned for their homeland, returned home. Instead of the planned three months, they spent four years abroad.

In native penates

Shortly after returning to St. Petersburg, Dostoevsky's wife Anna Grigorievna Snitkina successfully resolved with her son Fyodor, and in 1875 the family was replenished with another son, Alyosha. He was not destined to live long, the boy died at the age of three during an attack of epilepsy.

At home, Dostoevsky wrote the most fundamental work of his life - the novel The Brothers Karamazov. The main place for writing was a quiet and cozy place - Staraya Russa, where the writer dictated his novel, and Anna Snitkina habitually took shorthand. Every summer, the writer and his family fled from the bustle of St. Petersburg to this creative haven.

After returning from Europe, Anna Grigorievna had to fight for 13 years with creditors who threatened to list property and even intended to put the great writer in a debtor's prison. The amount of the debt was about 25 thousand rubles, and basically these were the debts of Dostoevsky's brother, who died suddenly in 1864. His large family, accustomed to a prosperous life, was left without a livelihood. Dostoevsky until the end of his life provided his widow and nephews financial assistance, depriving his family in many ways. The question was constantly on the agenda: “Where to get the money?”.

Many sad things happened in 1872. Arriving at summer rest in Staraya Russa, the couple discovered an incorrectly healed fracture of the hand of a little daughter. The next day, I had to return to St. Petersburg again to have the operation. At the same time, the infant son Fedya remained with strangers in Staraya Russa. At the same time, the mother of Dostoevsky's wife, Anna Grigorievna, severely injured her leg: a heavy chest literally crushed her thumb. And her sister Masha, at the age of 30, suddenly died abroad. Anna Snitkina herself almost went after her sister: the abscess formed in her throat left few chances for life. But the abscess burst, the patient recovered, life went on as usual.

In 1873, the novel The Demons was published, on the creation of which the writer worked for almost three years. Taking an artistic break, Dostoevsky agreed to temporarily become the editor of the magazine The Citizen, and then proceeded to write the novel The Teenager. Dostoevsky worked on his works at night, and during the day he dictated to his wife what he had written during the night. Heavy writer's work more and more undermined the health of Fyodor Mikhailovich. In 1874, 1875 and 1879 he undertook overseas trips in the spa Ems. But the result of treatment was short-lived.

The life of Anna Snitkina without Dostoevsky

All 14 years of marriage, Dostoevsky's wife Anna Grigorievna Snitkina worried about the poor health of her brilliant husband, each of his seizures resounded with pain in her soul and left scars on her heart.

In January 1881, after a quarrel with his sister Vera over an inheritance, Dostoevsky began to bleed in the throat. It was a harbinger of the end. A few days later, on January 28, the writer died in his wife's arms, having managed to say how much he loved her all these years and never cheated, even mentally.

For the 35-year-old widow, life has stopped. A trip to the Crimea, organized by relatives, was supposed to soften the bitterness of loss, but Anna Snitkina, on the contrary, plunged into terrible longing and despair.

She devoted the next 37 years to preserving the memory of the great writer, publishing his books, letters, collecting manuscripts and photographs, and creating a house-museum in Staraya Russa.

Death overtook Dostoevsky's wife in Yalta in 1918, where she was interred. And only fifty years later, thanks to the efforts of her grandson, she was reburied next to her husband in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

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This question was asked by biographers of many famous people. How often are great women next to great men who become like-minded people, helpers, friends? Be that as it may, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was lucky: his second wife, Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, was just such a person.

In order to understand the role of Anna Grigorievna in the fate of the classic, it is enough to look at Dostoevsky's life "before" and "after" the meeting with this amazing woman. So, by the time he met her in 1866, Dostoevsky was the author of several stories, some of which were highly acclaimed. For example, "Poor people" - they were enthusiastically received by Belinsky and Nekrasov. And some, for example, "Double" - suffered a complete fiasco, having received devastating reviews from these same writers. If success in literature, although variable, was still there, then other areas of Dostoevsky's life and career looked much more deplorable: participation in the Petrashevsky case led him to four years of hard labor and exile; the magazines created with his brother were closed and left behind huge debts; health was so undermined that practically most life the writer lived with a feeling of "on last days»; an unsuccessful marriage with Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva and her death - all this did not contribute to either creativity or peace of mind.

On the eve of his acquaintance with Anna Grigoryevna, one more catastrophe was added to these: under a bonded agreement with the publisher F.T. Stelovsky Dostoevsky had to submit a new novel by November 1, 1866. There was about a month left, otherwise all rights to subsequent works by F.M. Dostoevsky passed to the publisher. By the way, Dostoevsky was not the only writer who found himself in such a situation: a little earlier, on unfavorable terms for the author, the works of A.F. Pisemsky; V.V. got into the "bondage" Krestovsky, author of Petersburg Slums. For only 25 rubles, the works of M.I. Glinka at his sister L.I. Shestakova. On this occasion, Dostoevsky wrote to Maikov: “He has so much money that he will buy all Russian literature if he wants to. Does that person not have money who bought Glinka for 25 rubles».

The situation was critical. Friends suggested that the writer create the main line of the novel, a kind of synopsis, as they would say now, and divide it between them. Each of the literary friends could write a separate chapter, and the novel would be ready. But Dostoevsky could not agree to this. Then friends suggested finding a stenographer: in this case, the chance to write a novel on time still appeared.

Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina became this stenographer. It is unlikely that another woman could be so aware and feel the situation. During the day the novel was dictated by the writer, at night the chapters were transcribed and written. By the appointed date, the novel "The Gambler" was ready. It was written in just 25 days, from October 4 to October 29, 1866.

Stellovsky was not going to give up the opportunity to outplay Dostoevsky so quickly. On the day the manuscript was handed over, he simply left the city. The clerk refused to accept the manuscript. The discouraged and disappointed Dostoevsky was again rescued by Anna Grigoryevna. After consulting with acquaintances, she persuaded the writer to hand over the manuscript against receipt to the bailiff of the unit in which Stellovsky lived. The victory remained with Dostoevsky, but in many respects the merit belonged to Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, who pretty soon became not only his wife, but also true friend, assistant and companion.

To understand the relationship between them, it is necessary to turn to events much earlier. Anna Grigorievna was born in the family of a petty St. Petersburg official Grigory Ivanovich Snitkin, who was an admirer of Dostoevsky. In the family, she was even nicknamed Netochka, after the name of the heroine of the story "Netochka Nezvanova". Her mother, Anna Nikolaevna Miltopeus, a Swede of Finnish origin, was the complete opposite of her addicted and impractical husband. Energetic, domineering, she showed herself to be the complete mistress of the house.

Anna Grigorievna inherited both the understanding character of her father and the determination of her mother. And she projected the relationship between her parents onto her future husband: “... They always remained themselves, not echoing or imitating each other in the least. And they did not get entangled with their soul - I - in his psychology, he - in mine, and thus my good husband and I - we both felt free at heart."

Anna wrote about her attitude to Dostoevsky: My love was purely head, ideological. It was rather adoration, admiration for a man so talented and possessing such high spiritual qualities. It was a soul-searching pity for a man who had suffered so much, who had never seen joy and happiness, and who had been so abandoned by those close ones who would be obliged to repay him with love and care for him for everything that (he) did for them all his life. The dream of becoming his companion in life, sharing his labors, making his life easier, giving him happiness - took possession of my imagination, and Fyodor Mikhailovich became my god, my idol, and I, it seems, was ready to kneel before him all my life X".

The family life of Anna Grigorievna and Fyodor Mikhailovich also did not escape misfortunes and uncertainty in the future. They happened to survive years of almost beggarly existence abroad, the death of two children, Dostoevsky's manic passion for playing. And yet, it was Anna Grigorievna who managed to put their life in order, organize the work of the writer, and finally free him from those financial debts that had accumulated since the unsuccessful publication of magazines. Despite the difference in age and the difficult nature of her husband, Anna was able to improve their life together. The wife struggled with addiction roulette games, and helped in the work: shorthand his novels, rewrote manuscripts, read proofs and organized the book trade. Gradually, she took over all the financial affairs, and Fedor Mikhailovich no longer interfered in them, which, by the way, had an extremely positive effect on the family budget.

It was Anna Grigorievna who decided on such a desperate act as her own edition of the novel "Demons". There were no precedents at that time when a writer managed to independently publish his works and get real profit from it. Even Pushkin's attempts to receive income from the publication of his literary works have been a complete fiasco. There were several book firms: Bazunov, Volf, Isakov and others who bought the rights to publish books, and then published and distributed them throughout Russia. How much the authors lost on this can be calculated quite easily: Bazunov offered 500 rubles for the right to publish the novel "Demons" (and this is already a "cult" and not a novice writer), while income after the independent publication of the book amounted to about 4,000 rubles.

Anna Grigoryevna proved herself to be a true business woman. She delved into the matter to the smallest detail, many of which she learned literally in a “spy” way: ordering Business Cards; asking in printing houses on what conditions books are printed; pretending to be bargaining in a bookstore, I found out what extra charges he makes. From such inquiries, she found out what percentage and at what number of copies should be ceded to booksellers.

And here is the result - "Demons" were sold out instantly and extremely profitably. From that moment on, the main activity of Anna Grigoryevna was the publication of her husband's books ...

In the year of Dostoevsky's death (1881), Anna Grigorievna turned 35 years old. She did not remarry and devoted herself entirely to perpetuating the memory of Fyodor Mikhailovich. She published the collected works of the writer seven times, organized an apartment-museum, wrote memoirs, gave endless interviews, and spoke at numerous literary evenings.

In the summer of 1917, events that disturbed the whole country threw her into the Crimea, where she fell ill with severe malaria and died a year later in Yalta. They buried her away from her husband, although she asked otherwise. She dreamed of finding peace next to Fyodor Mikhailovich, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and that at the same time they would not put a separate monument to her, but would only cut out a few lines on the tombstone. last will Anna Grigoryevna was performed only in 1968.

Victoria Zhuravleva

Maria Pozdnyakova
Genius wife. World fame Dostoevsky owes much to his wife
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Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya died more than 95 years ago, outliving the writer by almost 40 years.

Dear Netochka

They met on October 4, 1866. Anna Grigorievna recalled in her diary, published after her death: “I saw before me a terribly unhappy man, killed, tortured ...” And less than a month later, when Dostoevsky unexpectedly asked the girl: “If If I confessed my love to you and asked you to be my wife, what would you say? - Netochka (that was the name of Anna in her family. - Ed.) Said: "I would answer you that I love you and will love you all my life."

In both cases, Netochka was not disingenuous. She met brilliant writer, perhaps at the very difficult period his life. Dostoevsky by that time had buried his brother Mikhail (also a writer) and his first wife. He had a debt of 25 thousand rubles. The writer who worked on the novel "Crime and Punishment", which was published in parts in the journal "Russian Messenger", had to make a forced pause. According to an enslaving contract with the publisher Stelovsky, in less than a month Dostoevsky was supposed to present him with some short novel. If the work had not been completed, Dostoevsky would have faced a nine-year loss of copyright on all newly created works. The horror lay in the fact that Dostoevsky did not have an affair! And the deadline was 26 days. He was advised to take a stenographer and try to write a new work with his help in a short time. So the best graduate of stenographers' courses came to Dostoevsky's apartment - 20-year-old Netochka Snitkina, who had previously graduated with a silver medal from the first women's gymnasium in St. Petersburg. In the year of the meeting with the writer, Netochka's father died - an official of the court department, financial condition the family was shaken, which prompted the girl to look for work. The writer promised to pay his assistant 30 rubles. per month.

Dostoevsky was delighted that the stenographer sent was a girl, because "a man will certainly get drunk, he will probably drink, but I hope you won't drink." Anna Grigorievna refused the offered cigarette, noting that she did not smoke and that the very sight of smoking women was unpleasant to her. On Dostoevsky's part, this was a test. In those years, many girls, carried away by emancipation, cut their hair short, demonstratively smoked. Netochka, on the contrary, had luxurious hair gathered in a bun. However, in the first days Dostoevsky did not even remember the face of the stenographer, but he did not fail to write down her exact address: what if she changes her mind about working with him and disappears with a dictated particle of the novel?

The new life-saving novel was to be The Gambler. At night, Dostoevsky made sketches, during the day he dictated them to a stenographer, in the evening Netochka put the notes in order, and in the morning Dostoevsky corrected the prepared sheets. Seeing how selflessly Netochka works, the writer more and more often called her “darling”, “darling”. And she herself wrote in her diary: "... Conversations with Fedya began to become more and more pleasant for me, so that I already went to dictation with some special pleasure." The Player was written on time. However, the publisher deliberately disappeared from St. Petersburg, preventing Dostoevsky from fulfilling the contract. And then Netochka showed ingenuity - the manuscript was handed over on receipt to the bailiff of the police unit where Stellovsky lives, a few hours before the deadline.

young widow

“I loved you and never cheated on you, even mentally,” the writer told her before his death. Photo by RIA Novosti
And soon the 45-year-old Dostoevsky, who saw Netochka's "gray eyes and kind smile", married her. The couple was destined to live together for 14 years. “During this time, Fyodor Mikhailovich wrote the so-called “Great Pentateuch”: “Crime and Punishment”, “Teenager”, “The Brothers Karamazov”, “Idiot”, “Demons”. Moreover, he dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to Anna Grigorievna, ”Igor Volgin, president of the Dostoevsky Foundation, author of a series of books about the writer, professor at Moscow State University, told AiF. - Anna Grigorievna was not only the wife who gave birth to the writer 4 children (two died), but also a faithful assistant. She rewrote manuscripts, dealt with publishers and printers, proofread. Harmony reigned between the spouses: spiritual and physical. They almost never parted, except perhaps for a few days, and immediately letters flew to Netochka: “I hug you and kiss you tightly, tightly. All the way I thought about you ... Anya, my clear light, my sun, I love you! Netochka learned to cope with Dostoyevsky's epileptic seizures and helped her husband overcome his passion for playing roulette. great writer died in Netochka's arms from emphysema. In her "Memoirs" Anna Grigoryevna cites dying words Dostoevsky: “Remember, Anya, I have always loved you dearly and have never cheated on you, even mentally!”

When Dostoevsky passed away, Anna Grigorievna was 35 years old, in her arms were the young Lyubov and Fedor. She raised children and created a creative archive of Dostoevsky, which scientists still use different countries, because Dostoevsky is the most published Russian writer in the world.

After February Revolution 70-year-old Anna Grigoryevna lived near Petrograd. She was tormented by malaria, and she went to Yalta in the hope of getting stronger. Instead of luggage, she took Dostoevsky's papers with her, on which she continued to work. In 1918, in the summer, Anna Grigoryevna died in the Crimea. In the mid 60s. of the last century, through the efforts of her grandson, Andrei Fedorovich Dostoevsky, who worked in Leningrad as a designer at a factory, her ashes were transferred from Yalta and buried next to the ashes of Dostoevsky in the necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. “... And if fate wishes, I will find, next to him, a place of my eternal rest,” Netochka wrote shortly before her death. Fate was pleased.