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in
House of the Dead

in
The Idiot

in
A Raw Youth

Imperial Academy of Sciences

impostorship, theme of: in
Demons

in
The Double

in Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

individualism

in European culture

Insulted and Injured, The
(Dostoevsky)

Cleopatra character type in

compassion in

confessions in

egoism in

ennui in

forgiveness in

innocence in

literary commentary in

masochism in

moral-psychological themes and

narrative technique in

reception of

scenes from FMD’s life in

self-deception/self-delusion in

social humanitarianism in

social-psychological themes and

sources for/connections to

strong
vs
. weak character types in

suffering in

writing/publication of

intelligentsia

Crimean War and

dreamers as character type of

fusion with the people and

gentry liberal

isolation of

mechtatelnost
’ (dreaming) and

of 1820s

of 1830s

of 1840s

of 1860s

of 1870s

peasants/the people and

pochvennichestvo
and

raznochintsy
and

Revolutions of 1848 and

Slavophil ideas and

interim ethics

Irenaeus, Saint

irrationalism: FMD’s

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Demons

in
House of the Dead

in
The Idiot

in
A Raw Youth

in
The Village of Stepanchikovo

Slavophils and.
See also
faith

Isaev, Alexander Ivanovich

Isaev, Pasha/Pavel (FMD’s stepson)

Cadet Corps placement of

education of

FMD’s finances and

FMD’s letters to

mother’s illness and

relationship with stepmother

Isaeva, Marya Dimitrievna.
See
Dostoevskaya, Marya Dimitrievna

Ishutin, Nikolay

Ishutin group

Isidor, Metropolitan

Ivanchina-Pisareva, Marya Sergeevna

Ivanov, A. I.

Ivanov, A. P. (FMD’s brother-in-law)

Ivanov, Konstantin

Ivanov, Vyacheslav

Ivanova, Elena Pavlovna

Ivanova, Marya Alexandrovna (FMD’s niece)

Ivanova, Sofya (FMD’s niece)

FMD’s letters to

Ivanova, Vera Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister)

Jackson, R. L.

Jaclard, Charles Victor

Jakobson, Roman

James, Henry

James, William

Jastrzembski, I. F.

Jesus Christ: as Don Quixote type

human image of

iconic representations of

as ideal beauty

as moral revolutionary

nature of

as positive ideal

suffering of

temptations of

Jews.
See also
Yids/Yiddish ideas

Jew Yankel, The
(Dostoevsky)

Job, Book of

John, Gospel of

John of Damascus

Journal de Pétersbourg

journalistic genres:
feuilleton

physiological sketch.
See also
literary genres; narrative techniques; novel (genre)

Joyce, James

Works
:
Ulysses

judicial system

Kametskaya, M. V.

Kant, Immanuel

Works
:
Critique of Practical Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

Karakozov, Dimitry: assassination attempt on Alexander II

Karamzin, N. M.

Works
:
History of the Russian State

Letters of a Russian Traveller

Poor Liza

Karepin, Alexander (FMD’s nephew)

Karepin, Peter (FMD’s brother-in-law)

Karepina, Varvara Mikhailovna (FMD’s sister)

Kashpirev (editor of
Dawn
)

Katkov, Mikhail: assassination attempt on tsar and

editing of FMD’s work and

FMD’s finances and

FMD’s letters to

letters to

Pushkin festival and

social/political philosophy of

surveillance of.
See also Moscow Gazette; Moscow News; Russian Messenger, The

Kavelin, K. D.

Keats, John

Kelsiev, V. I.

kenoticism

Khalturin, Stepan: assassination attempt on Alexander II

Khomiakov, Aleksey

Kierkegaard, Søren

Kingsley, Rev. Charles: World’s Fair of

Kireevsky, Ivan

Kireyev, A. A.

Koltsov, A. V.

Komarovich, V. L.

Komarovskaya, Countess Anna

Kommissarov, Osip

Koni, A. F.: and FMD’s guardhouse imprisonment

and FMD’s visit to juvenile criminals

and FMD’s presence at trial of Vera Zasulich

and FMD’s death

Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duke

Konstantin Nikolaevich, Grand Prince

Kornilova, Ekaterina

Korvin-Krukovskaya, Anna (wife of Charles Victor Jaclard)

FMD’s courtship of

and the Communards

FMD’s letters to

portrayed in
The Idiot

Koshelev, A. I.

Koshlakov, Prof.

Kovalevskaya, Sofya

Kovalevsky, E. P.

Kraevsky, A. A. See also
Notes of the Fatherland

Kramskoy, I. N.

Kravchinsky, S. M.

Krivtsov, Maj.

Kropotkin, Prince Peter

Kruglov, A. V.

Kumanin, A. M.

Kumanina, Alexandra Feodorovna (FMD’s aunt)

Kumanin family

Kurochkin, V. S. (editor of
The Spark
)

Kuzmin, P. A.

Laclos, Choderlos de

Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de

Lamennais, F. Robert de,
Works
:
Paroles d’un croyant

Land and Liberty (
Zemlya i Volya
)

“Landlady, The” (Dostoevsky)

Laski, Harold

Lavrov, P. L.

Works
:
Historical Letters

Studies on the Question of Practical Philosophy

League of Peace and Freedom

Lebedev, K. N.

Left Hegelianism

Legend of the Grand Inquisitor (Dostoevsky)

censorship and

children in

freedom/free will in

moral-psychological themes and

reception of

Roman Catholicism in

sources for/connections to

temptations of Christ in

writing/publication of

Léger, Louis

Lenin, V. I.

Leontiyev, Konstantin

Lermontov, M. Yu.

Works
:
A Hero of Our Time

Leroux, Pierre

Leroy, Maxime

Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole

Leskov, Nikolay,
Works
:
At Daggers Drawn

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Letkova-Sultanova, E. P.

Letters on Art
(Dostoevsky)

Levin, Harry

Levitt, Marcus

Library for Reading, The
(periodical
Biblioteka dlya chteniya
)

Life of a Great Sinner, The
(Dostoevsky)

Liprandi, I. P.

literacy

Literary Fund

loans to FMD by

literary genres: burlesque anecdote

dramatic farce

dystopia

hagiography

prison memoir

short story

sketch

social satire

tragedy

tragicomic realism

travel diary.
See also
journalistic genres; narrative technique; novel (genre)

“Little Boy at Christ’s Christmas Party, A” (Dostoevsky)

“Little Hero, A” (Dostoevsky)

Littré, Emile

Loris-Melikov, Count Mikhail

Lorrain, Claude,
Works
:
Acis and Galatea

love: Christian doctrine of

desire for

egoism of suffering and

ethical

Golden Age and

love-hate emotions

in “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

in
The Gambler

in
Netotchka Nezvanova

in
A Raw Youth

in “The Sentence”.
See also
masochism; sadomasochism

Löwith, Karl

Luke, Gospel of

Lutheranism

Lvov, F. N.

Lyubimov, D. A.: and FMD at Pushkin Festival

Lyubimov, N. A., censorship of
Crime and Punishment

censorship of
Demons

FMD’s commentary to
The Brothers Karamazov
and. See also
Russian Messenger, The

Maikov, Apollon

as chronicler

FMD’s finances and

FMD’s homecomings and

FMD’s letters to

FMD’s relationship with

letters to

Meshchersky Circle and

nationalism of

Petrashevsky Circle and

Speshnev secret society and

Works: The Tale of Igor’s Campaign

Maikov, Valerian

mal de siècle. See
ennui

male friendships

Malherbe, François de

Mann, Thomas

Maria Nikolaevna, tsarevna (daughter of Nicholas I)

Markevich, B. M.

Markovich (pseud. Vovchok), Maria

Works: “Masha”

Marlinsky.
See
Bestuzhev

Marlowe, Christopher, Works:
Dr. Faustus

Martyanov, P. K.

Marx, Karl

Works
:
The Holy Family

Das Kapital

Marya Alexandrovna, tsarina (consort of Alexander II)

Marya Feodorovna, tsarina (consort of Alexander III)

Mary Stuart
(Dostoevsky)

masochism

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
The Insulted and Injured

in “The Landlady”

in
Notes from Underground

material determinism

materialism

American

eighteenth-century

First International and

mechanistic/physiological/scientific

in “The Sentence”

of Western Europe

“Yiddism” and

Matthew, Gospel of

Mazzini, Giuseppe

mechtatelnost
’ (dreaming, reverie)

mental illness

Merezhkovsky, Dimitry

Merimée, Prosper

meshchantsvo
(bourgeois practicality)

Meshchersky, Prince V. P.
See also Citizen, The
(periodical)

Meshchersky Circle

metaphysical Romanticism

Mezentsev, Gen.

murder of

Mikhailov, A. P.

Mikhailov, M. L.

Mikhailovsky, N. K.

Works
:
What is Progress?

Miller, Orest

Miller, Robin Feuer

Milton, John

Milyukov, Alexander

as author of
The New Revelations of the Metropolitan Antonio

FMD’s letters to

Milyukov, Pavel

Milyukov Circle

Milyutin, Vladimir

Minaev, D. D., and FMD’s “Petersburg Visions”

Mirecki, Alexander

“Mr.—bov and the Question of Art” (Dostoevsky)

“Mr. Prokharchin” (Dostoevsky)

Mlodetsky, Ippolit

Mochulsky, K.

Molière, Jean Baptiste,
Works
:
Le Tartuffe

Mombelli, Nikolay

Monnier, Henri

moral conscience

European
vs
. Russian

Nihilism and

physiology and

vs
. reason

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
The Idiot

in
Netotchka Nezvanova

in
Notes from Underground

moral determinism

moral-psychological themes: in
The Insulted and Injured

in “The Landlady”

in
Netotchka Nezvanova

in
Poor Folk

moral responsibility

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Notes from Underground

in
Poor Folk

in
The Village of Stepanchikovo

Moscow Gazette
(newspaper)

Moscow News
(newspaper)

Moscow Telegraph, The
(newspaper)

Muraviev, Count N. M., and Nekrasov’s “disgrace”

Muravyev, Nikolay

Muravyeva, Mme.

mystical positivism

mystic terror

Nabokov, I. A.

Nadein, M. P.

Napoleon I

Napoleon III

Narezhny, V. T., Works:
Bursak

Narodnaya Volya. See
People’s Will

narodnichestvo. See
Populism

narrative technique: eighteenth century

nineteenth century

FMD’s

in
The Brothers Karamazov

in
Crime and Punishment

in
Demons

in
Diary of a Writer

in
The Double

in
House of the Dead

in
The Idiot

in
The Insulted and Injured

in “The Landlady”

in
The Life of a Great Sinner

in
Notes from Underground

in
Poor Folk

in
A Raw Youth

in
Uncle’s Dream

in
The Village of Stepanchikovo

in
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Naryshkin-Kurakina, Elizaveta, and trial of Vera Zasulich

national character/nationality

character types and

collectivism and

messianic role of

nationalism: FMD’s

Russian

Natural School (Naturalism)

FMD and

humanitarianism of

sentimental

settings preferred by

social-psychological themes and

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