Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky left behind not only a great literary heritage, but also posterity. In a marriage with his first wife Maria Dmitrievna, the writer had no children, but his second wife Anna Grigorievna gave birth to four of him. How did their fate develop? And what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Fyodor Mikhailovich?
Children
Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya in her girlhood bore the surname of Snitkin and was the daughter of a petty official. Anna Grigorievna met the writer when she worked as a stenographer for him. The spouses had a big age difference (more than 20 years), but this did not prevent family happiness and the birth of children.
Their firstborn daughter Sophia was born in 1868. However, in the same year, she caught a cold and died. The girl was buried in one of the cemeteries in Geneva, where the Dostoevsky couple were at that moment.
Already in the next 1869, Anna Grigorievna gave her husband a second daughter, Love. It happened in German Dresden. The girl was 12 years old when the writer himself passed away. Lyubov Fedorovna later also took up the pen, wrote several stories and memoirs dedicated to her father, but neither one nor the other had much success. Even before the revolution, Dostoevskaya went abroad for treatment and never returned. She died in Italy at the age of 57 from a blood disease.
In 1871, the son of Fyodor appeared in St. Petersburg. In childhood and adolescence, he also wrote, but after he became more interested in horses. Fedor Fedorovich lived in the Crimea, where he was engaged in horse breeding. Dostoevsky Jr. died at the age of 51.
Another son Aleksey, born in 1875, died when he was not even 3 years old. According to one of the versions, the cause of death was epilepsy, which, as you know, suffered from his father.
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Grandchildren and great-grandchildren
Dostoevsky's first son Fyodor had three children. The daughter of Fyodor Fyodorovich died in infancy, and the son also Fyodor died at the age of 16. The latter wrote talented poetry and could well have become a famous poet. Only the second grandson of the writer Andrei, born in 1908, continued the family. Andrey Fedorovich became an engineer. He lived in Leningrad and taught at a technical school.
Andrei Fedorovich, in turn, became the father of Dmitry, the great-grandson of Dostoevsky. Dmitry Andreevich was born in 1945. His sister died in early childhood. The writer's great-grandson worked all his life in working specialties: he was an electrician, an electrician and even a tram driver. He is still in good health and lives in St. Petersburg. Dmitry Andreevich has a son, Alexei, and four grandchildren, Anna, Vera, Maria and Fedor.
Brothers and sisters
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky himself had three brothers and four sisters. The elder Mikhail not only wrote, but also translated. He died at 43. One of the writer's younger brothers, Andrei, became an architect, and the other Nikolai became an engineer.
The sister of Fyodor Mikhailovich Varvara married a wealthy man and became Karepina. She was extremely stingy and repeated the fate of the old money-lender from Crime and Punishment. Varvara Mikhailovna was killed by a janitor who coveted her savings.
Dostoevsky's other two sisters, Vera and Lyubov, turned out to be twins. Love died in infancy, and Vera registered a relationship with a certain Ivanov. Judging by the memoirs of the writer's contemporaries, Vera Mikhailovna's marriage was happy.
The youngest in the family, Alexandra Mikhailovna, went down the aisle twice and was first Golenovskaya, and after Shevyakova. Shevyakova, like Karepina, was not distinguished by generosity and even sued her siblings.
Yulia Popova