The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived excessively and wrote for a large audience. In her memoirs, Anna Dostoyevskaya tells how she brought order into her husband’s life and also developed the mail order book trade.
There are business reasons that brought Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina and the twenty-five-year-old and already famous Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky together in his St. Petersburg apartment in October 1866. The writer urgently needs a stenographer to help him write his novel “The Gambler”. “I felt,” Anna Dostoyevskaya remembers this key moment fifty years later, “I was breaking new ground, I was able to earn money with my work and I became independent To get to know writers personally. ” The job as a typist is temporary. The manuscript must be delivered on November 1st.