Saint Demetrios, together with Saint George, are the two brave young lads of Christendom. They are down here on earth, and the two archangels Michael and Gabriel are in heaven. In ancient times they were painted without arms, but in later years they were depicted armed with swords and spears and dressed in iron shirts.…
„The young generation has not forgotten the face of a young man, a rich landowner, who had studied with the Germans as a laborer in a factory, in a technical plant. He was at a [radical] gathering… ‘I advise you, gentlemen, to direct your attention to the the technical side and study technology.’ ‘Serve a…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V] Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI] At The Select Boarding School (from the…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V] Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI] At The Select Boarding School (from…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V] At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) The Merchant’s Story (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) The Merchant’s Story (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1897, DPC IV]) The Peasant Marey (from The Diary Of A Writer, January 1876 [1883, 1897, DPC III]) {In square brackets…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) The Peasant Marey (from The Diary Of A Writer, January 1876 [1883, 1897, DPC III]) {In square brackets we indicate the original Anna Grigorievna…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) {In square brackets we indicate the original Anna Dostoevskaya anthologies in which the story appeared, followed by its order of posting in…
„The matter [in the epistolary novel Poor Folk] is simple: it concerns some good-hearted simpletons who assume that to love the whole world is an extraordinary pleasure and duty for every one. They cannot comprehend a thing when the wheel of life with all its rules and regulations runs over them and fractures their limbs and bones without a word.…
Today’s posting opens a series intended to gather the complete English equivalents (or at least as many of them as are available in the public domain) of a wonderful collection of Dostoevsky short stories and excerpts. Best known as „Dostoevsky for Children”, the original Russian anthology was brought out posthumously by Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya, the…
