St. Petersburg Addresses and Dostoevsky's Addressees (On the Problem of Regional Commentaries on Address Books of the Writer)
Journal Title: Неизвестный Достоевский - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
For the first time the article deals with the experience of the annotated edition of Dostoevsky’s address records contained in workbooks and other manuscript materials of the writer’s archive. All the records are reproduced thanks to autographs with the indication of the archival storage sites. Regional commentaries with the use of address books and other printed resources of those times (tables of the buildings, guidebooks, reference books etc) allowed making correction in the range of wrong textual interpretations of the previous publications. The commentaries reconstructed as full as possible historical addresses of people and organizations appeared in Dostoevsky’s manuscripts, specified personal data of the addressees. In dozens of cases are given the house owners’ names and exact numbers of the houses, in certain cases even of the apartments. The modern position of the annotated addresses is spotted on the map of St. Petersburg.
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Boris Tikhomirov
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- DOI 10.15393/j10.art.2017.3361
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