Fedor Michailovich Dostoevsky 1821-1881

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FEDOR MICHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY.–Dostoevsky was bom in Moscow on November 11, 1821, and died on February 9, 1881, at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). His death mask was taken on February 10 by the sculptor Leopold A. Bernstam (A. 1859 at Riga). It passed from the hands of the poet’s widow, Anna Dostoevskaya, to his brother Andrei Michailovich, and is now in the Dostoevsky Room of the Historical Museum in Moscow. Our reproduction was made by the photographer W. Fedorov, as kindly arranged by the Academy of Science at Leningrad. (Anna A. Dostoevskaya: Memoirs, Leningrad State Publications, 1925, p. 279.)

Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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