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LOT 46:

Russian Bulletin, November 1866. The first publication of the novel "Crime and punishment". pp. 79 -341

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Russian Bulletin, November 1866. The first publication of the novel "Crime and punishment". pp. 79 -341
Magazine literary and political, published By M. Katkov. Volume sixty-six.
M. In University Printing. 1866 288 p., Appendix-novel by Henry wood on the Eve of Martin's day, pages 225-384. Softcover, size 15 x 22.5 cm. Printing, inscriptions on the title, glued spine, the block is divided (but does not break up) into three notebooks, some pages are cut from the bottom (without loss for the text), bent corners, frayed edges of the pages, the cover is torn along the spine.
Crime and Punishment -- the third part, chapters 1-6.
In September 1865, Dostoevsky invited the editor of the magazine "Russian Herald" Mikhail Katkov to place his new work on the pages of his publication, saying that the work he had begun was "a psychological report of a crime»:
Page from the notebook of F. M. Dostoevsky outlining the idea of " Crime and punishment»
The action is modern, this year. A young man who has been expelled from the University ... has decided to kill an old woman, a titular councillor who gives money at interest... in my story there is, moreover, an allusion to the idea that the legal penalty imposed for a crime is much less intimidating to the criminal than the legislators think, partly because he himself morally demands it.
In October, Katkov sent Dostoevsky 300 rubles as a Deposit; however, the money came to Wiesbaden with some delay — by the time the writer had already left back to Russia. Work on "Crime and punishment" was continued in St. Petersburg, and in November 1865 Fyodor Mikhailovich rejected and burned a multi-page draft and began to write again. A month later, he provided Katkov with The first seven pages of the novel. Further, the work was sent to the" Russian Bulletin " in parts as ready.
At first, the principles of cooperation between the "Russian Bulletin" and the authors caused Dostoevsky bewilderment. Katkov, having received from him in September 1865 a preliminary plan of "Crime and punishment", sent to Wiesbaden an advance of 300 rubles without a cover letter. When Fyodor Mikhailovich sent the first pages of the manuscript to the publisher three months later, there was no reaction from the magazine. The silence lasted several weeks, during which the writer remained in complete ignorance of the fate of his work. At some point could not stand, he sent a letter to Katkov, in which he asked to give at least some information about the plans follows: "If my novel You don't like or You decide not to print it, then send it back. You are an indispensable man, Mikhail Nikiforovich, and with human feeling ... I Earnestly ask you to answer this letter quickly and clearly, so that I can know my position and do something."
In mid-January 1866, the magazine finally received an answer: the editors apologized to the author for having too long "left him in perplexity", and reported that the beginning of "Crime and punishment" has already been printed in the 1st issue, which in the coming days will be published. Later the writer learned that for the staff of the "Russian Herald" an unexpected proposal from Dostoevsky was a real salvation — in one of the letters Fyodor Mikhailovich said that " they had nothing from fiction for this year, Turgenev does not write anything, and with Leo Tolstoy they quarreled. I came to the rescue. But they were terribly cautious and political with me."
The cooperation was mutually beneficial: Katkov, who paid royalties for a year, helped Dostoevsky avoid a debt pit; the circulation of the" Russian Bulletin "thanks to" Crime and punishment " increased markedly. Readers ' interest in the novel was associated not only with the criminal plot and famously twisted intrigue, but also with the extraordinary coincidence of real events and novel history. In January of the same year, 1866, shortly before the publication of the "Russian Herald" from the press, "Moscow police Vedomosti" reported on the crime committed by a University student Danilov: a young man killed the usurer Popov and his maid Nordman, suddenly entered the house through an unlocked door. Newspaper and magazine reviewers read Crime and punishment and compared the details — for example, the Russian invalid newspaper wrote in those days: "if you compare the novel with this actual incident, Raskolnikov's morbidity will catch your eye even more vividly»