[DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881)]. Otechestvennyia zapiski. [Notes of the Fatherland]. St Petersburg: I. Glazunov, 1846. The first appearance in print, in serialised form, of Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik . Established in 1818, the journal Otechestvennyia zapiski had an irregular publishing history until 1830, when it was shut down. Several years later, with the new publisher Andrei Kraevskii, it became a monthly periodical, with sections on Russian news, science, art, criticism and bibliography, in addition to original, unpublished literary texts. Among the contributors were the critic V. Belinsky, who left in April 1846, and M. Bakunin. Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik and Gospodin Prokharchin , and Turgenev’s Bezdenezhye first appeared in print here in the year 1846. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, mentions the earlier and later series. Twelve volumes, large quarto (250 x 150mm). With the half-titles, final bookseller’s advertisements or index, few tipped-in paper slips identifying month of issue and (in vol. 3) advertisement listing subscribers funding a monument for I.A. Krylov (slight toning, occasional very minor spotting). Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, spines gilt and lettered (somewhat rubbed).
[DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881)]. Otechestvennyia zapiski. [Notes of the Fatherland]. St Petersburg: I. Glazunov, 1846. The first appearance in print, in serialised form, of Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik . Established in 1818, the journal Otechestvennyia zapiski had an irregular publishing history until 1830, when it was shut down. Several years later, with the new publisher Andrei Kraevskii, it became a monthly periodical, with sections on Russian news, science, art, criticism and bibliography, in addition to original, unpublished literary texts. Among the contributors were the critic V. Belinsky, who left in April 1846, and M. Bakunin. Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik and Gospodin Prokharchin , and Turgenev’s Bezdenezhye first appeared in print here in the year 1846. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, mentions the earlier and later series. Twelve volumes, large quarto (250 x 150mm). With the half-titles, final bookseller’s advertisements or index, few tipped-in paper slips identifying month of issue and (in vol. 3) advertisement listing subscribers funding a monument for I.A. Krylov (slight toning, occasional very minor spotting). Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, spines gilt and lettered (somewhat rubbed).
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