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Aimée Dostoyevsky

Born

in Dresden, Germany

September 14, 1869

Died

November 10, 1926

Genre

Memoir

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Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Любовь Фёдоровна Достоевская; 1869—1926) was a Russian writer, memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.

Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot. Due to having weak health, nervous system problems, and constant relationship failures, Lyubov had become arrogant, haughty, and peevish. She never married. In later life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house. In 1913, after a trip abroad for medical treatment, Lyubov decided to stay there, and she lived abroad until her death in 1926. At that period she was also known under the name Aimee Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Э Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Любовь Фёдоровна Достоевская; 1869—1926) was a Russian writer, memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.

Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot. Due to having weak health, nervous system problems, and constant relationship failures, Lyubov had become arrogant, haughty, and peevish. She never married. In later life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house. In 1913, after a trip abroad for medical treatment, Lyubov decided to stay there, and she lived abroad until her death in 1926. At that period she was also known under the name Aimee Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Эме Достоевская). She died in Italy of pernicious anemia.

Although Lyubov Dostoyevskaya was Orthodox, a funeral rite was Catholic by mistake. A simple wooden cross on her grave was soon replaced by a small porphyry tomb. In 1931 Italia Letteraria magazine suggested that since Dostoyevskaya was buried in Italy, it is the Italian government that should establish a memorial. On December 1931 a granite pedestal was constructed, with an epitaph written by the editor of Venezia Tridentina magazine. Resting place of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter in Gries has been preserved after cemetery reconstruction. Her tomb was moved to Bolzano city's cemetery.

Lyubov Dostoyevskaya is most well known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter (German: Dostoejewski geschildert von seiner Tochter, also known as Dostoyevsky According to His Daughter), originally published in Munich in 1920. Her memoirs, written in French and published in German, were later translated in other European languages. In 1920 the book was released in Dutch (in Arnhem), the following year there were translations into Swedish and English, in 1922 it was published in the United States and Italy. Russian version, highly abridged, was published in 1922 by Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo (Saint Petersburg) under the title "Достоевский в изображении его дочери Л. Достоевской".

This work contains many factual inaccuracies, partially because at the year of her father's death Lyubov Dostoyevskaya was only 11, and partially because she based the memoirs on her mother's stories. Many researchers tend to see this memoirs as subjective and unreliable, for example, Dostoyevskaya is biased in the description of relationships between Dostoyevsky and his first wife, Mariya Isayeva. The hatred towards Isayeva was experienced by both Lyubov and Anna, her mother.

Her other works include short stories collection Bolnye devushki (Russian: Больные девушки; 1911), novels Emigrantka (Эмигрантка; 1912) and Advokatka (Адвокатка; 1913). ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 63 ratings · 13 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

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Quotes by Aimée Dostoyevsky (?)

“And yet if anything in the world can save you, it is not a convent and not Catholicism, but simply an active interest in your fellow-creatures. When experience and observation have taught us love and charity, we are saved, and life is no longer terrible. Fate may be as cruel as she pleases ; but if we have warmth and love in our hearts, we shall never be alone, never in despair, and shall never think of self-destruction, if only out of pity for all our suffering brothers, whom, as long as we live, we have always the chance of helping.”
― Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, The Emigrant

tags: christianity, faith, helping-others

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“No one can sing well, play well, or write well, without living through moments of the deepest pain and anguish. Every real talent has known times of torturing depression when the heart in its agony has cried out to God: “Why hast Thou forsaken me? What have I done that I should suffer so?" And then, at the very darkest moment, suddenly, the veil is torn from their eyes! Truth, with her flaming torch, stands before them, and they understand that God sends them suffering to strengthen and ennoble their talent, that it may touch men's hearts and show to tired wanderers on earth glimpses of heaven.”
― Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, The Emigrant

tags: books, suffering, writers

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“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained all her ideas on life, all her faith, all her ideals and aims and aspirations from books. Books stood between her and reality, and hid from her those deep truths that can never be learnt from even the greatest literary production, but can only be understood after long years of untiring observation and experience. It was in books also that Irene found her ideal of the man she could love. Her hero was an exceedingly complicated character.”
― Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, The Emigrant

tags: books, reading

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