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How many women did the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky have?
Fyodor Dostoevsky fell passionately in love with this woman in Semipalatinsk, where after hard work he joined the military. At that time he was 33 years old and Maria Isaeva was married. The writer met his future wife and husband at the apartment of Lieutenant Colonel Belikov. Witnesses of the development of their relationship noted that Maria Isaeva treated Dostoevsky "more pitifully", but at the same time she was burning with sincere feelings for her.
He even took off his clothes and approached Maria and proposed to her, but was rejected. The passionate Frenchwoman was already in love with another. Everything was like in the author's novel. Dostoevsky suppressed his jealousy and did not lose face. And what's even better, Maria Isaeva, quickly disappointed in the object of her love, soon accepted the writer's proposal.
They got married in Kuznetsk on February 6, 1857, but they did not find happiness in marriage. It turns out that my wife has a difficult character. The couple quarreled and often broke up. In the early 1960s, Maria Isaeva fell ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of only 39. "She loved me infinitely, and I loved her immensely, but we could not live happily ever after. She is the most honest, noble and generous of all the women I have ever known in my life," said Fyodor Dostoevsky. wrote: About his wife. Her image formed the basis for the images of Katerina Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment, Nastasya Filippovna in The Idiot and Katerina in The Brothers Karamazov.
The author met his second wife Anna by chance. Poverty forced him to sign a slave contract with a publisher. And to meet the deadline, he hired a stenographer, a 20-year-old girl named Anna Snitkina. Anna was already in love with Dostoevsky and had read his novels. By the time the author's new novel, The Gambler, was completed, Dostoevsky realized that he was loved and loved. I treated my second wife differently. It was calm.
"At the end of the novel, I knew that the stenographer really loved me, although he never said a word to me. And I liked her more and more. After my brother's death, my life became so boring and difficult that I asked him to marry me. She agreed." They lived together for 14 years and never married again after his death.
What was she like? She was a loving and understanding companion. Once she pawned her dowry to help her husband pay off a debt. She was unable to return the dowry. Realizing that her husband was a gambler and did not know how to manage money, she took on all the financial affairs of the household.
She forced Dostoevsky to quit the game and pay off his debts in full. She coordinated her own life, negotiated with publishers, and published her husband's works herself. Her life was not sweet. Dostoevsky was torn apart more than once, and two of the Dostoevskys' children died in infancy. The eldest son, Sonechka, died before reaching three months. Her son, Alyosha, was not even three years old. Their daughter, Lyubov, and son, Fyodor, became the parents' happiness. Dostoevsky dedicated his novel, The Brothers Karamazov, to Anna.
But between his passionate love for Maria Constant and his mature love for Anna, Fyodor Dostoevsky fell in love with two different women. In the early 1860s, he had a love-hate relationship with the femme fatale Apollinaria Suslova. He was 40 and she was 21. He was still in his first marriage, and she wanted him all to herself. The affair was stormy but short. She called his wife “disadvantaged,” and he called her “sick and selfish.”
When, after yet another brutal fight, Suslova left for Paris alone, Dostoevsky pursued her. But it was too late. She was already in love with a Frenchman. Dostoevsky's situation was exactly the same with his first wife. Soon Suslova became disillusioned with her new chosen one and begged Dostoevsky to come to Paris. And when she found out that he no longer loved her, she raised a fuss. She came to him with a knife and declared that she would kill her Frenchman with it. The writer took the knife from the woman and left with her for Germany.
After Dostoevsky became a widower, he again proposed to Suslova, but she refused, and it was all in vain. Dostoevsky soon married Anna Snitkina, and the passionate Apollinaria remained forever on the pages of the novel. Critics find her features in the image of Polina in the novel "The Gambler", in the image of Nastasya Filippovna in "The Idiot" and in the image of Grushenka in "The Brothers Karamazov".
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Apparently, Fyodor Dostoevsky liked her very much and encouraged her literary experiments in every way, but he quickly realized that the girl was too independent. "She is very smart, developed, has a literary education and has a beautiful and kind heart. She is a girl with high moral qualities. But her convictions are diametrically opposed to mine, and she cannot give them up. ... Therefore, I do not think that our marriage will be happy," the writer admitted.
It is known that Dostoevsky liked meek women, women with a rich spiritual life. He did not like nihilists, feminists and other representatives of the female sex who advocated for equal rights. He did not like sloppy clothes, rude words coming from women's mouths, a rough tone of voice, talk about women's rights and that women should also get a higher education. All this is disgusting to him. But with age he became more tolerant, even stating that he "expects a lot from Russian women."