Dostoevskys speech on pushkin biography

The Great Pushkin Celebration of 1880:
What Was on Their Minds?
Especially, What Was on Dostoevsky's Mind?

A Narrative Extension of SAC chronologies
© Alan Kimball
KIMBALL FILES

Table of Contents =

SAC Editor's Introduction
*1880au:Diary of a Writer| Dostoevsky published his June speech with his INTRODUCTION
Dostoevsky’s Pushkin speech
--Pushkin’s three creative periods
--His model of rootless intelligentsia = Aleko in poem The Gypsies
--Contribution of Social/service hierarchies to Aleko’s condition
--Evgenyi Onegin is modeled on the pitiful Aleko type
--But Tatyana, a “Russian woman”, is different
--Can one buy happiness with the suffering of others?
--Tatyana’s answer
--The Russian people
--Pushkin’s universalism, his affinity for other times and other people
--This “pan-humanism” is the essential Russian “national” trait

Subsequent polemics
--Aleksandr Gradovskii
--Konstantin Kavelin
--Vladimir Solov’ev

SAC Editor's Introduct