ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the Dostoevsky's husband, who explores men as the author of Anna Karenin are the teachers of the public, their teachers, and we are only their pupils. The novel Katkov actually refused to publish and asked the author to alter it. They said, seeing that she, who had devoted his whole life to the service of my husband and to his memory, did not consider it necessary to refute a calumny, people might conclude that there was some truth in it. Many of his friends gave it as their opinion that, as a counterblast to the calumny, the protest ought to be supplemented by reminiscences, published in the journals at various times and depicting Dostoevsky as an extraordinarily kind and responsive man. She talked to many persons about the unfortunate letter, which has so much clouded my last years, and asked them what they thought had made Strakhov write it.
