Memoirs of the Writer's Wife

Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya, née Snitkina, 1846—1918, was the second wife of the great writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and the mother of his children. She was a stenographer, publisher, advocate of her husband's creative legacy, and bibliographer. Thanks to her memoirs, we can learn about the genius writer not only as the author of world masterpieces. Anna Grigoryevna tells how he was in family and private life. These memoirs read like a novel. She writes about the difficulties of being the wife of a celebrity, about the writer's debts, his fears, and his struggles with epilepsy. A separate topic is the complicated relationship with her stepson, who never accepted his stepfather’s second marriage and called him an obsolete old man. Having read this book, you will discover the writer from a new perspective.