Michail Michailowitsch Dostoevsky

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Mikhail Dostoevsky

Michail Michailowitsch Dostojewski ( Russian : Михаи́л Миха́йлович Достое́вский; born November 25, 1820 in Moscow ; † July 22, 1864 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian publicist, writer, translator and literary critic. He was the eldest brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky .

life and work

Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's father, Mikhail Andrejewitsch Dostojewski (1789-1839), was a doctor at Moscow's Marijinsky Clinic for the Poor. The mother, Maria Feodorovna, b. Nechayeva (1800-1837), married him on January 14, 1820.

Until 1837, Mikhail and Fyodor, who was born only 13 months after him, were brought up and trained together, first at home and then in boarding schools in Moscow. According to his father's will, Mikhail, like Fyodor, should have studied at the St. Petersburg Military Engineering University . He was not accepted there, but was able to begin the same training at another St. Petersburg university and after a few months was transferred to the Tallinn School for Military Engineers there.

In 1842 he married Emilia von Ditmar, with whom he had several children. When the Ministry of the Interior smashed the Petraschewzen in 1849 , Mikhail was also arrested shortly after his brother, but released two months later.

In 1861 he founded the monthly Vremja for Fyodor, who was not allowed to appear as a journalist , which quickly became very popular and already had 2,300 subscribers in the first year. The magazine was banned on May 24, 1863 because of an article by Nikolai Strachow that was supposedly critical of the government . In January 1864, the brothers founded a successor, Epocha (Эпоха, "epoch"), which however no longer achieved the success of Wremja . When Mikhail died that same year, his brother could not hold the magazine.

Publications

In the 1840s, Mikhail Dostoevsky published several short stories in the magazine Otechstvennye zapiski ("Patriotic Notes"):

  • Dočka (Russian: Дочка, One daughter), 1848
  • Gospodin Svetelkin (Господин Светелкин, Mr. Swetelkin), 1848
  • Vorobej (Воробей, Sparrow), 1848
  • Dva starička (Два старичка, Two old men), 1849
  • Pjat'desjat let (Пятьдесят лет, fifty years), 1850
  • Staršaja i men'šaja (Старшая и меньшая, The Elder and the Younger), 1851

Michail Dostojewski has also translated some German classics into Russian, including Die Räuber and Don Karlos .

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Dostoyevsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1976, ISBN 0-691-06260-9 , pp. 33 . ( limited online version in Google Book Search)
  2. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 41 . ; Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1976, ISBN 0-691-06260-9 , pp. 74 .
  3. ^ Louis Allain: Dostoïevski et l'autre . Presses Universitaires de Lille, Lille 1984, ISBN 2-85939-253-X , p. 179 . ( limited online version in Google Book Search)
  4. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1976, ISBN 0-691-06260-9 , pp. 271 .
  5. ^ Ronald Hingley: Dostoevsky . His Life and Work. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978, p. 94 .
  6. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 361 .
  7. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1986, ISBN 0-691-01452-3 , pp. 348-361 .
  8. ^ Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 72 .
personal data
SURNAME Dostoevsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Михаи́л Миха́йлович Достое́вский (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1864
Place of death St. Petersburg