Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

Lyubov Dostoyevskaya
Lyubov Dostoyevskaya as a child in the 1870s.
Born	(1869-09-14)September 14, 1869 Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Died	November 10, 1926(1926-11-10) (aged 57) Gries, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Russian
Notable works	Dostoyevsky According to His Daughter (1920)
Relatives	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (father), Anna Dostoyevskaya (mother)

Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Любо́вь Фёдоровна Достое́вская; 1869–1926) was a Russian writer,memoirist and the second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.

Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot. Due to her weak health, nervous system problems, and constant relationship failures, Lyubov had become arrogant, haughty, and peevish. She never married. In later life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house. In 1913, after a trip abroad for medical treatment, Lyubov decided to stay there, and she lived abroad until her death in 1926. At that period she was also known under the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Эме Достоевская). She died in Italy of pernicious anemia.

Although Lyubov Dostoyevskaya was Orthodox, the funeral rite was Catholic by mistake. A simple wooden cross on her grave was soon replaced by a small porphyry tomb. In 1931 Italia Letteraria magazine suggested that since Dostoyevskaya was buried in Italy, it is the Italian government that should establish a memorial. On December 1931 a granite pedestal was constructed, with an epitaph written by the editor of Venezia Tridentina magazine. Resting place of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter in Gries has been preserved after cemetery reconstruction. Her tomb was moved to Bolzano city's cemetery.

Lyubov Dostoyevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter (German: Dostoejewski geschildert von seiner Tochter, also known as Dostoyevsky According to His Daughter), originally published in Munich in 1920. Her memoirs, written in French and published in German, were later translated into other European languages. In 1920 the book was released in Dutch (in Arnhem), the following year there were translations into Swedish and English, and in 1922 it was published in the United States and Italy. A Russian version, highly abridged, was published in 1922 by Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo (Saint Petersburg) under the title "Достоевский в изображении его дочери Л. Достоевской".