Otlivanchik, А. V. THE MYSTERY OF THE FICTION WRITER OF THE CITIZEN IVAN BOGDANOV’S PERSONALITY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 1. P. 25–31. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.428


Literary studies

THE MYSTERY OF THE FICTION WRITER OF THE CITIZEN IVAN BOGDANOV’S PERSONALITY

Otlivanchik
А. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
identification
I. Bogdanov
V. I. Bogdanov
F. M. Dostoevsky
V. S. Kartsov
The Citizen
The Spark
“Bobok”
“Half a Letter of One Person”		 Summary: The personality of Ivan Bogdanov, a fiction writer and art columnist for The Citizen in 1872–1876, is studied in the article based on epistolary sources, notes from F. M. Dostoevsky’s notebook in 1872–1875, memoirs of Prince V. P. Meshchersky, who was the owner of The Citizen, and data from a number of reference publications from the late XIX – early XX centuries. The study allows us to firmly identify this Citizen employee with Ivan Ivanovich Bogdanov (early 1840s – early 1880s), the younger brother of the famous satirist V. I. Bogdanov, a permanent employee of The Spark. For the first time, the question of I. I. Bogdanov being considered as one of the prototypes of the “Silent Observer” from “One Person” – a collective character, the hero of the story “Bobok” and the feuilleton “Half a Letter of One Person”, both written by F. M. Dostoevsky is being examined.



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