The Notebooks with Criticism: Another Case of Anna Dostoevskaya

The article describes the notebooks of A. G. Dostoevskaya kept in the Manuscript Department of the State Literary Museum Fund. These notebooks contain the articles and reviews about the work of F. M. Dostoevsky from the periodicals since 1846. A Part of these materials were copied by Anna Dostoevskaya with her own hand, the other materials, prepared mainly after 1881, are stationery books with some clippings pasted in them. The article makes comparison of the articles included in the notebook with those recorded in the bibliographic indexes of A. G. Dostoevskaya and S. V. Belov, and as a result, reveals some undocumented publications. Despite the fragmentary extracts from newspapers, A. G. Dostoevskaya was guided by certain principles of collecting material and its compositional design, sought the breadth of the geographical coverage of critical reviews on the writer and created rahter a complete and objective picture of newspaper comments on the artistic and journalistic work of F. M. Dostoevsky. The preserved materials reveal one of A. G. Dostoevskaya's unknown plans to create in the "Museum of memory" a section with the code of criticism devoted to the analysis of creativity of the great writer.