ABSTRACT
Nicolay Nicolayevich Strakhov studied at the Faculty of Mathematics in the Petersburg University and took his degree in 1848. Strakhov made Tolstoys personal acquaintance in 1871. After a series of brilliant articles on War and Peace, he wrote to Tolstoy, asking him to collaborate in the review Zarya. Dostoevsky died on 28th January, 1881. Strakhov later on wrote his reminiscences of Dostoevsky, published in 1883, in the first volume of F. M. Dostoevskys complete works. Dostoevskys Biography contains Strakhovs Reminiscences of Dostoevsky. With such a nature he was very much disposed to sweet sentimentality, to lofty and humane dreamings; and these dreamings are his bent, his literary muse and path. He was a truly unhappy and wicked man who imagined himself happy, a hero, and loved tenderly himself alone. Here is a little commentary on her Biography; she could write down and tell of this side, too, of Dostoevsky.
