Dostoevsky in Love

  The Eternal Husband here, here

  The Gambler here, here

  The Idiot here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  The Insulted and Injured here, here, here, here

  The Landlady here

  ‘Mr Prokharchin’ here

  Netochka Nezvanova here

  Notes from the House of the Dead here, here

  Notes from the Underground here, here

  ‘A Novel in Nine Letters’ here

  Poor Folk here, here, here, here

  Uncle’s Dream here, here

  The Village of Stepanchikovo here, here, here

  Winter Notes on Summer Impressions here

  A Writer’s Diary here, here, here, here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Fedya) here, here, here, here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Lyubov (Lyuba) here, here, here, here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Maria (first wife) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  death here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Maria (mother) here

  Dostoevsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  death here, here, here

  and literary journals here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  his widow and family here, here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Nikolai here

  Dostoevsky, Sonya here, here, here

  Dostoevsky, Dr Mikhail Andreevich here, here

  Durov, Sergei here, here, here, here

  Efremov, Marko here, here

  English Club here

  Epoch here, here, here, here

  Filippov, Pavel here

  Fourier, Charles here

  Franco-Prussian War here

  French Revolution here

  Freud, Sigmund here

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe here

  Geschwind Syndrome here

  Glinka, Mikhail here

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von here

  Gogol, Nikolai here, here, here, here, here, here

  Goncharov, Ivan here, here

  Gorsky, Peter here

  Great Russian, The here

  Grigoriev, Apollon here, here, here

  Grigorovich, Dmitri here, here, here

  Grossman, Leonid here

  Guseva, Pelageya here

  Harvey, Arnold here

  Herzen, Alexander here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hildreth, Richard here

  Hoffmann, E. T. A. here

  Holbein, Hans here

  Homer here

  Hugo, Victor here, here, here, here

  Irtysh, River here, here

  Isaev, Alexander here

  Isaev, Pavel (Pasha) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and money here, here, here, here, here

  Isaeva, Maria, see Dostoevsky, Maria (first wife)

  Ivanov, Ivan here

  Ivanova, Elena Pavlovna here

  Joyce, James here

  Karakozov, Dmitri here

  Karamzin, Nikolai here

  Katkov, Mikhail here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and The Brothers Karamazov here

  and Russian Herald here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Tolstoy here

  Kolotkevich, Nikolai here

  Konstantin, Grand Duke here

  Korvin-Krukovskaya, Anna here, here, here, here

  Korvin-Krukovskaya, Sofia here

  Korzeniowski, Apollo here

  Krivtsov, Major here, here, here

  Lavrentieva, Agrafena here

  League of Peace and Freedom here

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich here

  Lermontov, Mikhail here

  Literary Fund here, here

  Luhrmann, Tanya here

  Maikov, Apollon here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Maikov, Valerian here

  Marx, Karl here, here

  Maugham, W. Somerset here

  May Laws here

  Meshchersky, Prince Vladimir here, here, here, here

  Mikhailovsky, Nikolai here

  Miliukov, Alexander here, here, here

  Miliutin, Vladimir here

  Mohammed, Prophet here

  Moscow Art Theatre here

  Nabokov, General Ivan here

  Nabokov, Vladimir here, here

  Napoleon Bonaparte here, here

  Napoleon III, Emperor here

  Nechaev, Sergei here, here, here

  Nechaeva, Maria here, see Dostoevsky, Maria (mother)

  Nekrasov, Nikolai here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  death here

  Nevrotova, Elizaveta here

  Nicholas I, Tsar here, here, here, here

  Nietzsche, Friedrich here

  Nihilists and Nihilism here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Notes of the Fatherland here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Ogarov, Nikolai here, here

  Optina Pustyn monastery here

  Ostrovsky, Alexander here

  Panaev, Ivan here

  Panaeva, Avdotya here

  Paris Commune here

  Paris Exposition here

  Paris International Literary Congress here

  Paul, Grand Duke here

  Pavlov, Pavel here

  People’s Vengeance here

  People’s Will here, here, here

  Perov, Vasily here

  Peter the Great, Tsar here, here, here

  Peter and Paul Fortress here, here, here, here, here, here

  Petersburg Miscellany here

  Petrashevsky, Mikhail here, here, here

  Pisarev, Dmitri here

  Pius IX, Pope here

  Pobedonostsev, Konstantin here, here, here, here, here, here

  Poe, Edgar Allen here

  Polish uprising here

  Populists here, here

  Pushkin, Alexander here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Moscow festival here, here

  ‘The Prophet’ here, here, here

  Raphael here

  Rasputin, Grigori here

  Riesenkampf, Dr here

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques here

  Rubinstein, Anton here

  Russian Herald here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and The Brothers Karamazov here

  Russian Word here, here, here

  Sand, George here, here, here, here

  Saveliev, Arkhip here

  Schiller, Friedrich here

  Scott, Walter here

  serfdom, abolition of here, here

  Sergei, Grand Duke here

  Shakespeare, William here, here

  Stackenschneider, Elena here

  Snitkina, Anna, see Dostoevsky, Anna

  Society for Aid to Needy Writers and Scholars here

  Society of Writers here

  Soloviev, Alexander here

  Soloviev, Vladimir here

  Soloviev, Vsevolod here, here, here

  Speshnev, Nikolai here, here, here

  Stalin, Iosif here

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin here

  Steinway, George here

  Stellovsky, Fyodor here, here, here, here, here

  stenography here

  Strakhov, Nikolai here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Tolstoy here

  Suslova, Apollinaria (Polina) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  her letters here, here, here

  her sister’s letter here

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr here

  Third Section here, here

  Time here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Timofeevich, Ermak here

  Timofeyeva, Varvara here

  To the Young Generation here

  Tolstoy, Sofia here

  Tolstoy, Lev here, here, here, here
, here, here, here, here

  Anna Karenina here, here

  and Dostoevsky here, here

  and Turgenev here, here

  War and Peace here, here, here

  Trousseau, Dr here

  Trubetskaya, Zinaida here

  Turgenev, Ivan here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Fathers and Sons here, here

  breach with Dostoevsky here

  ‘Phantoms’ here, here, here

  and Pushkin festival here, here

  and Tolstoy here, here

  Smoke here

  Vergunov, Nikolai here, here, here, here

  Viardot, Louis here

  Viardot, Pauline here, here

  Vielgorsky, Mikhail here

  Voice, The here

  Voltaire here

  Whistle, The here

  Winter Palace here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Woolf, Virginia here

  Word, The here

  Wrangel, Baron Alexander here, here, here, here, here

  Yanovsky, Stepan here, here, here

  Young Russia here

  Zedergolm, Father here

  A Note on the Author

  Alex Christofi is the author of two novels, Let Us Be True and Glass, which was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Prize. He is also Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers. His essays and reviews have been published in the Guardian, New Humanist, Prospect, The White Review and The Brixton Review of Books. He lives in south London.

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