Apollinaria Prokofievna Suslova

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Polina Suslowa, around 1890

Apollinaria Prokofjewna Suslowa ( Russian Аполлина́рия Проко́фьевна Су́слова ; * 1839 in Panino near Nizhny Novgorod ; †  1918 in Sevastopol ), known as Polina Suslowa (Поли́на Саус) was a Russian writer. She gained prominence as the sister of the first Russian female doctor and medical professor , Nadezhda Suslowa , as the lover of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and finally as the wife of the philosopher Vasily Rosanov .

Life

Suslowa was the daughter of a serf peasant who bought himself out and worked as a manager on the estate of his former master, Count Schermetew. In 1854 the family moved to Petersburg, where the sisters received foreign language lessons at a private school. When the St. Petersburg State University made its lectures public, the young women attended a large number of lectures there. Both also made literary attempts. Polina was very interested in social issues and was a feminist .

Her love affair with Dostoevsky, who was almost 20 years her senior, probably began in the winter of 1862/1863. Suslowa also had a relationship with a Spanish student named Salvador, who promised to marry her but then left. Dostoevsky was very jealous, complained about her emotional temperament and especially her selfishness . In the spring of 1863 Suslova traveled to Paris, where Dostoevsky followed her in August. On the further trip she accompanied him, also to Baden-Baden , where he lost a lot of money gambling that summer. Dostoyevsky's wife Marija died in 1864 . Although they constantly quarreled, Dostoevsky Suslova proposed marriage in the fall of 1865. She refused. A little later, the relationship broke up and Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkina .

Suslowa gave Dostoyevsky inspiration for many of his later fictional characters, especially Raskolnikov's sister Dunja ( Guilt and Atonement ), Nastasja Filippovna and Aglaia ( The Idiot ), Lisa Drosdowa ( The Demons ), Akhmakova ( The Young Man ) and Gruschenka and Katerina Ivanovna ( The Karamazov Brothers ).

In November 1880 Suslowa married Rosanow, 17 years her junior. The marriage was unhappy and after a few years the couple separated. When Rosanov wanted to remarry, Suslova refused to divorce him. His marriage to Varvara Dmitryevna Butyagina took place in secret.

literature

  • Polina Suslowa: Dostoyevsky's eternal friend . My intimate diary. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-548-30399-4 .

Web links

Commons : Polina Suslova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky. A Writer in His Time . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 385 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 385 f . Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky. The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1995, ISBN 0-691-04364-7 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Konstantin Mochulsky: Dostoevsky. His Life and Work . Princeton University Press, 1967, ISBN 0-691-06027-4 , pp. 316 ( limited preview in Google Book Search). ; Chapter 6, Introduction . In: Peter Sekirin (Ed.): The Dostoevsky Archive . Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals. McFarland, Jefferson NC 1997, ISBN 0-7864-0264-4 , pp. 168 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
  4. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky. A Writer in His Time . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 388 .
  5. ^ Walter Moss: Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky . Anthem Press / Wimbledon Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-898855-59-5 , pp. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search). Chapter 6, Introduction . In: Peter Sekirin (Ed.): The Dostoevsky Archive . Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals. McFarland, Jefferson NC 1997, ISBN 0-7864-0264-4 , pp.  168 .
  6. ↑ a b Kenneth A. Lantz: The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 2004, ISBN 0-313-30384-3 , pp. 430 .
  7. ↑ Chapter 6, Introduction . In: Peter Sekirin (Ed.): The Dostoevsky Archive . Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals. McFarland, Jefferson NC 1997, ISBN 0-7864-0264-4 , pp. 168 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ). Richard Freeborn: Dostoevsky . Haus Publishing, London 2003, ISBN 1-904341-27-6 , pp. 58 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Vassili Rozanov: Les hommes de la clarté lunaire . Editions L'âge d'homme, Lausanne 2004, p. 16 (( limited preview in Google Book search)).
personal data
SURNAME Suslowa, Apollinaria Prokofievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Су́слова, Аполлина́рия Проко́фьевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Panino near Nizhny Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH 1918
Place of death Sevastopol