Lyubov Dostoevskaya

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Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoevskaya ({{langx|ru|Любо́вь Фёдоровна Достое́вская}}; 14 September 1869 – 10 November 1926), also known by the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya, was a Russian writer and memoirist.{{cite web|url=http://www.nevanews.com/index.php?id_article=484§ion=13|title=Dostoevsky: Into the Depths of the Human Soul|last=Shadursky|first=Julia|date=1 June 2006|publisher=NevaNews|access-date=5 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126043935/http://nevanews.com/index.php?id_article=484§ion=13|archive-date=26 November 2010|url-status=dead}}

Personal life

She was the second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sonya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.

Lyubov never married. Later in her life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house.{{cite book|last=Lantz|first=Kenneth|page=103 |title=The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfDOcmJisn0C| isbn=0-313-30384-3}} In 1913, after a trip abroad for medical treatment, Lyubov decided to stay there, and she lived abroad until her death in 1926. At that period she was also known by the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya ({{langx|ru|Эме Достоевская}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.chrab.chel.su/archive/31-08-00/3/A121075.DOC.html |trans-title=Любовь Достоевская: альбом признаний Уникальная книга о дочери великого русского писателя издана в Италии на трех языках |title=Lyubov Dostoyevskaya: confessions album. A unique book about the daughter of the great Russian writer was published in Italy |last=Kazakov |first=Alexey |date=31 August 2000 |publisher=Chelyabinskiy Rabochiy |language=Russian |access-date=5 October 2010 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055122/http://www.chrab.chel.su/archive/31-08-00/3/A121075.DOC.html |url-status=dead }}

She died in Italy of pernicious anemia.

File:Ljubov' Dostoevskaja - Tomb at Bolzano Cemetery.jpg

Although Lyubov Dostoevskaya was Orthodox, the funeral rite was Catholic by mistake. A simple wooden cross on her grave was soon replaced by a small porphyry tomb. In 1931 Italia Letteraria magazine suggested that since Dostoevskaya was buried in Italy, it was the Italian government that should establish a memorial.{{cite web|url=http://www.voskres.ru/literature/library/skanta.htm|title=From Bolzano with love. The fate of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter in Italy|trans-title=С любовью из Больцано. О судьбе дочери Ф.М.Достоевского в Италии|last=Scanta|first=Olivia|publisher=Russkoye Voskreseniye|language=Russian|access-date=6 October 2010|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175818/http://www.voskres.ru/literature/library/skanta.htm|url-status=dead}} In December 1931 a granite pedestal was constructed, with an epitaph written by the editor of Venezia Tridentina magazine. Her resting place in Gries has been preserved after cemetery reconstruction. Her tomb was moved to Bolzano city's cemetery in 1957.

Works

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Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter ({{langx|de|Dostoejewski geschildert von seiner Tochter}}, also known as Dostoyevsky According to His Daughter), originally published in Munich in 1920. Her memoirs, written in French and published in German, were later translated into other European languages.{{cite web|url=http://www.gramota.ru/lenta/news/8_1217|title=Dostoevsky According to His Daughter|publisher=Gramota.ru|language=Russian|access-date=4 October 2010}} In 1920 the book was released in Dutch (in Arnhem), the following year there were translations into Swedish and English, and in 1922 it was published in the United States and Italy.{{cite web|url=http://www.hrono.ru/text/2007/sobyt0108.html |trans-title=Русская жизнь. Выставка к 500-летию рода Достоевских |title= Russian life. An exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Dostoevsky family|publisher=Hrono.info |language=Russian|access-date=5 October 2010}} A Russian version, highly abridged, was published in 1922 by Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo (Saint Petersburg) under the title "Достоевский в изображении его дочери Л. Достоевской".{{cite web|url=http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1902381/ |title=Dostoevsky According to His Daughter L. Dostoyevskaya|trans-title=Достоевский в изображении его дочери Л. Достоевской |publisher=Ozon.ru|language=Russian|access-date=4 October 2010}}

The work contains many factual inaccuracies, partly because Lyubov was only 11 at the time of her father's death, and partly because she based the memoirs on her mother's stories.{{cite book|last=Catteau|first=Jacques|title=Dostoyevsky and the process of literary creation|year=1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=467}}{{cite journal|last=Carr|first=E|year=1930|journal= The Slavonic and East European Review|publisher=UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies |title=Was Dostoyevsky an Epileptic?}}http://golosasibiri.narod.ru/downloads/kuz_ven_dost_1.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} Many researchers tend to see this memoir as subjective and unreliable, citing as an example her bias in the description of the relationship between Dostoevsky and his first wife, Mariya Isayeva. Both Lyubov and her mother Anna expressed hatred towards Isayeva.

Her other works include the short story collection Bolnye devushki ({{langx|ru|Больные девушки}}; 1911), and the novels Emigrantka (Эмигрантка; 1912) and Advokatka (Адвокатка; 1913).

English translations

The Emigrant, (Novel), Constable and Co, London, 1916. [https://archive.org/details/emigrant00dostuoft from Archive.org]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Study, Yale University Press, 1922. [https://archive.org/details/fyodordostoyevsk00dostuoft from Archive.org]

Lyubov Dostoevskaya

Personal life

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