Mikhail was a doctor at Moscow’s Marriinskaya Hospital for the poor and after the birth of his two eldest sons (Mikhail and Fyodor) he was promoted to collegiate assessor, which raised his legal status to that of nobility. He was a devoted parent and a well-educated and caring man, but he had a hot temper and could be stern and distrustful. Mikhail was also an extremely religious man and he and Maria raised their children in the traditional orthodox way, which was characterized by fear, rigidity, and obedience.
In 1837 Maria died of tuberculosis and it was after this that Fyodor’s younger brother, Andrey, noted how his father began to change. He states that when Mikhail became a widower he began to speak out loud to himself, as if he were imagining that he was having a conversation with his wife. Andrey cites a letter that his father sent to Fyodor several days before his death as well, in which Mikhail's writing was filled with the anguish and sadness that festered, then grew after his wife's death. He states that Mikhail’s loneliness nearly drove him mad and that he started to drink, and his drinking eventually became alcoholism. Of the three possible causes for death, Andrey makes it clear that he believes that Mikhail's serfs murdered him. He claims that Mikhail, being ill-tempered, lost control and shouted at his serfs in such a way that one of the serfs rallied a group together and they attacked and killed him. Andrey then goes onto say that when the police came to the scene they were bribed by the group and the serfs went unpunished, while the official cause of Mikhail’s death was determined to be a heart attack.
The true cause of Mikhail’s death has never been identified, but it is evident that the mystery surrounding it and the loss of his father had a profound effect on Fyodor’s worldview and writing. Freud argues that the way in which Dostoevsky’s epilepsy developed is directly related to how he internalized and understood the death of his father. Epilepsy is a theme in his work and it is particularly important to The Idiot. Parricide and the relationship between fathers and sons are also important themes for Dostoevsky, especially in The Brothers Karamazov, in which the guilt for the death of their father is marked by conflict between his sons.
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At the church with. Monogarov was the grave of the father of the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky (1788-1839), headquarters of the Moscow Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor (since 1821). In August 1812 he was sent to a military hospital, from 1813. He served in the Borodino Infantry Regiment, in 1816 he was awarded the title of headquarters doctor, in 1819 he was transferred as a resident to the Moscow military hospital. In 1828 he received the title of hereditary nobleman. In 1831, he acquired the village of Darovoye, adjacent to Monogarov. Already in the first year after the purchase, a fire destroyed Darovoe. Fedor Mikhailovich recalled: "Everything was burning, everything was completely burned, and the hut, and the barn, and the farmyard, and even spring seeds, part of the cattle." Having only entered into considerable debts, Mikhail Andreevich and his wife Maria Fedorovna (1800-1837) were able to somehow rebuild their possessions by the end of the summer. But in 1833, Mikhail Andreevich already bought the neighboring village of Cheremoshnya. The purchase was forced. Neighboring possessions were not delimited - all the so-called stray stripes.
Mikhail was a doctor at Moscow’s Marriinskaya Hospital for the poor and after the birth of his two eldest sons (Mikhail and Fyodor) he was promoted to collegiate assessor, which raised his legal status to that of nobility. He was a devoted parent and a well-educated and caring man, but he had a hot temper and could be stern and distrustful. Mikhail was also an extremely religious man and he and Maria raised their children in the traditional orthodox way, which was characterized by fear, rigidity, and obedience.
In 1837 Maria died of tuberculosis and it was after this that Fyodor’s younger brother, Andrey, noted how his father began to change. He states that when Mikhail became a widower he began to speak out loud to himself, as if he were imagining that he was having a conversation with his wife. Andrey cites a letter that his father sent to Fyodor several days before his death as well, in which Mikhail's writing was filled with the anguish and sadness that festered, then grew after his wife's death. He states that Mikhail’s loneliness nearly drove him mad and that he started to drink, and his drinking eventually became alcoholism. Of the three possible causes for death, Andrey makes it clear that he believes that Mikhail's serfs murdered him. He claims that Mikhail, being ill-tempered, lost control and shouted at his serfs in such a way that one of the serfs rallied a group together and they attacked and killed him. Andrey then goes onto say that when the police came to the scene they were bribed by the group and the serfs went unpunished, while the official cause of Mikhail’s death was determined to be a heart attack.
The true cause of Mikhail’s death has never been identified, but it is evident that the mystery surrounding it and the loss of his father had a profound effect on Fyodor’s worldview and writing. Freud argues that the way in which Dostoevsky’s epilepsy developed is directly related to how he internalized and understood the death of his father. Epilepsy is a theme in his work and it is particularly important to The Idiot. Parricide and the relationship between fathers and sons are also important themes for Dostoevsky, especially in The Brothers Karamazov, in which the guilt for the death of their father is marked by conflict between his sons.
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At the church with. Monogarov was the grave of the father of the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky (1788-1839), headquarters of the Moscow Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor (since 1821). In August 1812 he was sent to a military hospital, from 1813. He served in the Borodino Infantry Regiment, in 1816 he was awarded the title of headquarters doctor, in 1819 he was transferred as a resident to the Moscow military hospital. In 1828 he received the title of hereditary nobleman. In 1831, he acquired the village of Darovoye, adjacent to Monogarov. Already in the first year after the purchase, a fire destroyed Darovoe. Fedor Mikhailovich recalled: "Everything was burning, everything was completely burned, and the hut, and the barn, and the farmyard, and even spring seeds, part of the cattle." Having only entered into considerable debts, Mikhail Andreevich and his wife Maria Fedorovna (1800-1837) were able to somehow rebuild their possessions by the end of the summer. But in 1833, Mikhail Andreevich already bought the neighboring village of Cheremoshnya. The purchase was forced. Neighboring possessions were not delimited - all the so-called stray stripes.
Family Members
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
1820–1864
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1821–1881
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Varvara Mikhaylovna Dostoevsky Karepina
1822–1893
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Andrey Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
1825–1897
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Lyubov Mikhaylovna Dostoevsky
1829–1829
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Vera Mikhaylovna Dostoevsky Ivanov
1829–1896
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
1831–1883
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Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Dostoevsky Golenovsky
1835–1889
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