Reminiscences of a 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, and editor of her husband’s creative legacy, as well as a bibliographer. Thanks to her memoirs, we can learn about the genius writer not only as the author of world masterpieces. Anna Grigoryevna tells what he was like in family and private life. These memoirs are like a novel. She writes about how difficult it is to be the wife of a idol, about the writer’s debts, his fears, and his struggle with epilepsy attacks. A separate topic is her complicated relationship with her stepson, who never accepted the second marriage of his stepfather and called him “a worn-out old man.” After reading this book, you’ll discover the writer from a new side.