Аннотация: Reflections during reading the biography of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reflections during reading the biography of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I
A person without means, but capable of thinking and a thinking human - where will the intellect direct him?
(Especially if we assume that he used to have money, but he lost it as a result of any sudden (historical?) circumstances. - This consideration may be borne in mind, although it is not voiced).
II
Do not participate in conspiracies.
Do not gamble.
Do not grumble. Feel a love to a people.
Do not lose heart.
Tolerate, serve, build relationships ... Be loyal ...
Get education.
Work hard.
Show initiative and perseverance in a construction, organization of personal life.
Keep the honor of the family. To pay debts.
Do not retreat before the disease.
Show moderation in alcohol consumption.
Tell everything, but don't tell anything.
Be on friendly terms with everyone, if possible, people. Influential people are no exception.
To believe...
To not give up...
'... Dostoevsky expresses his thoughts about the Russian people: the Russian people possess both the genius of all peoples and their own genius.' (Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').
III
It is important to have positive qualities in the complex. For example, in the novel by Yuri Trifonov 'Another life', a person with intellectual inclinations, a historian, is described. He is, in general, loyal, and efficient, and talented, and decent, and a good family man ...
But he has too much a self esteem, a pride. Weak ability to adapt. He has not enough money ...
to break a pride ... to find humility ...
'The individuality who is your filth, the dump is your inner evil. In this sore mouth, your finest words turn into vulgar nonsense, in this narrow head your finest thoughts turn against you.' (Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').
IV
'An agitated, stunned Dostoevsky is surrounded, as if by waves of the sea, by a raging crowd of people. Hands, faces, clothes are flashing. Before him they fall to their knees. They are kissing his hands. 'You are a genius, you are more than a genius!' ... Now thanks to him there are no more Slavophiles, no more Westerners - there are only Russians. The people, recently disunited, is uniting in a universal brotherhood, united by love, they proud of themselves. His words, his faith saved the whole people ... The hall explodes with a frantic ovation. For them, for these strangers absorbing his words, he, Dostoevsky, is a true Prophet ... '(Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').
('The 1917 revolution ravaged Anna Grigoryevna [Dostoevskaya - the widow of Fyodor Mikhailovich]. She fled to Crimea. Desperate, impoverished, hungry, she died on June 9, 1918. Her son Fedor died in Moscow in 1921, her daughter Lyubov - in Italy in Italy 1926. '(Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').).
V
'A lot of tests fell on his life: joyless youth, an unjust sentence, penal servitude, illness, gambling, debts, hardships, creativity by orders - he went through all this, overcame everything. He stepped over all his misfortunes, as if through an abyss, and went out to the open plain ..., he, covered with hair, covered with bleeding wounds, and - was saved .... The payment for his colossal work was spent on settlements with a horde of creditors. '(Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').
'In front of his inner eyes are small rooms in the colored wallpaper in the Mariinsky Hospital, the lime alleys of the Darovoy village, the long corridors of the Engineering School, the dark room of Petrashevsky, the gloomy casemates of Petropavlovka and three pillars dug into the snow in front of the standing gendarmes. Wind. Snow. Cold. Siberia ... Semipalatinsk ... Escape to the town of Zmiev in Wrangel's carriage ... The mocking laughter of Polina. And the roulette wheel, spinning, spinning ... Anna Grigoryevna in tears. An inconspicuous grave mound in an unnamed cemetery in a foreign country ... Cities, faces, eyes ... a lamp illuminating the desk ... the usurer's evil face ... A train rushing with a rattling, and, finally, the pale sky of Russia, which is getting closer and closer ... And now he already breathes by her air ... Russia, which recognizes him. He hears as if the rumble of a sea tide, this rumble is growing, approaching ... '(Henri Troyat 'Fyodor Dostoevsky').
Siberia, reincarnation, success.
Years spent abroad - in many countries ...
Work, talent, success ...
November 9, 2019 10:15
Translation from Russian into English: November 9, 2019 14:47.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Размышления при чтении биографии великого русского писателя Фёдора Достоевского'.