Жена игрока: Любовь, риск и женщина, которая спасла Достоевского

Ona byla, kak govoril Dostoevskiĭ, "edinstvennai͡a iz zhenshchin, kotorai͡a poni͡ala ego". Nakonet͡s-to vozmozhnostʹ poni͡atʹ poi͡avitsi͡a i u chitateleĭ. Osenʹi͡u 1866 goda dvadt͡satiletni͡ai͡a stenografistka Anna Snitkina podala zai͡avlenie o prieme na rabotu k pisateli͡u, kotorogo ona bogotvorila, - Fëdoru Dostoevskomu. Snitkina, nazyvavshai͡a sebi͡a "devushkoĭ shestidesi͡atykh", vyrosla v ėpokhu pervogo v Rossii feministskogo dvizhenii͡a, a Dostoevskiĭ - izvestnyĭ radikal, stavshiĭ bolʹshim pisatelem, - vpechatlil ee svoimi proizvedenii͡ami. Odnako pri lichnoĭ vstreche Anna uvidela Fëdora Mikhaĭlovicha neschastnym, slomlennym, izmuchennym, stradai͡ushchim ėpilepsieĭ i pogri͡azshim v pagubnoĭ strasti k azartnym igram. Obespokoennai͡a vsem ėtim, Anna stala ego doverennym lit͡som, pervoĭ chitatelʹnit͡seĭ i napersnit͡seĭ, a zatem zhenoĭ i, nakonet͡s, delovym partnerom. Kniga "Zhena igroka" predstavli͡aet soboĭ novyĭ vzgli͡ad na istorii͡u Anny Dostoevskoĭ. Opirai͡asʹ na dnevniki, pisʹma i drugie arkhivnye istochniki, professor i prepodavatelʹ slavi͡anskikh i͡azykov i russkoĭ slovesnosti Ėndri͡u Kaufman rasskazyvaet ob odnom iz samykh burnykh i uvlekatelʹnykh brakov v istorii literatury.

She was, as Dostoevsky said, "the only woman who understood him." Finally, readers will have the opportunity to understand. In the autumn of 1866, Anna Snitkina, a twenty—year-old stenographer, applied for a job with the writer she idolized, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Snitkina, who called herself a "girl of the sixties," grew up during the era of Russia's first feminist movement, and Dostoevsky, a well—known radical who became a great writer, impressed her with his works. However, at a personal meeting, Anna saw Fyodor Mikhailovich unhappy, broken, exhausted, suffering from epilepsy and mired in a pernicious passion for gambling. Concerned about all this, Anna became his confidant, his first reader and confidante, and then his wife and, finally, his business partner. The book "The Gambler's Wife" is a new look at the story of Anna Dostoevskaya. Based on diaries, letters and other archival sources, Professor and lecturer of Slavic languages and Russian literature Andrew Kaufman tells about one of the most stormy and fascinating marriages in the history of literature.