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acquaintance with f. m. dostoévsky
ON arriving in Petersburg Aniuta immediately
wrote to Dostoévsky, and asked him to come to
us. Feödor Mikhåilovitch came on the day appointed.
I remember with what a fever of expectation we
awaited him; how we began to listen to every ring at
the door for a whole hour before his appearance.
But his first visit was not a success.
My father, as I have already said, bore himself with
great distrust toward everything which proceeded
from the world of literature. Although he had given
my sister permission to make Dostoévsky’s
acquaintance, it was only with great reluctance, and not
without secret alarm.
" Remember, Liza, that a great responsibility will
rest upon you," were his last words to my mother, as he
let lis depart from the country. " Dostoévsky is not
a man of our society. What do we know about him 1
Only that he is a journalist, and a former convict.1
A fine recommendation! There’s no disputing it;
you must be very, very cautious with him."
In view of these facts my father gave my mother
strict orders that she was to be present at the
meeting between Aniuta and Feödor Mikhåilovitch, and
not to leave them alone together for a single moment.
1 Dostoévsky spent five years (1849-54) in Siberia for being
implicated in a secret political society.—Trans.
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