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About the Authors Natalia Tuimebaevna Ashimbaeva is Candidate in Philology and Director of the F. M. Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum in St. Petersburg. With Boris Tikhomirov, she is the editor of the Petersburg issues of the almanac Dostoevsky and World Culture. Her works include many articles on works by Dostoevsky, Maikov, Annensky and others, and of books on Dostoevsky, including The F. M. Dostoevsky Museum in Petersburg (co-authored with V. Biron) (1999) and Dostoevsky: the Context of his Works and Time (2005), from which the article in this collection is taken. She is executive editor and coauthor of the book The Image of Dostoevsky in Photographs, Graphic Art, Painting and Sculpture (2009). She lives in SI. Petersburg. Tatyana Vyadcheslavovna Buzina is Candidate in Philology, Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of European Languages at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanities University, where she teaches English and English literature. She is the author of numerous articles on Dostoevsky and the Russian Silver Age; and of of the book Dostoevsky and Social and Metaphysical Freedom (2003). Most recently she has co-authored a two-volume textbook entitled History, Literature, and Arts of Great Britain. In addition to her PhD from Yale University (2000), she has completed a dissertation, "Self-Deification in European Culture." She lives in Moscow. Olga Dekhanova is Candidate in Pharmaceutical Science, Head of tlle Laboratory for Medicine Quality Control in the Center for Drug Chemistry, and the author of several articles on realia- in particular food, alcohol, and medicine-in Dostoevsky's works. She lives in Moscow. Ivan Andreevich Esaulov is Doctor of Philology and Professor in the Department of TIleoretical and Historical Poetics of the Historical Philology Faculty of the Russian State Humanities University. H e is the author of over 170 works, including the monographs Isaac Babel's "Red Cavalry" (1993), The Category of SoboYl1ost' in Russian Literature (1995), The Spectrum of Adequacy in the Interpretation of a Literary Work: N. V. Gogol's "Mirgorod" (1995), and The Paschal Theme in Russian Literature (2004). The article in this collection is a plenary lecture delivered at the XIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society in Budapest, July 2007. xvi ABOUT THE AUTHORS Anna Leonidovna Gumerova is a graduate of the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the author of a number of articles addressing the function of the Biblical text in Dostoevsky's works. She is the Scholarly Secretary of the Gorky Institute of World Literature's Commission for the Study of F. M. Dostoevsky's Works. Rima Khanifovna Iakubova is Candidate in Philology and Docent and Chair of the Department of Russian Literature and Folklore at Bashkir State University. The article in this collection is taken from her 2003 book Dostoevsky's Works and Artistic Culture. She lives in Ufa. Tatiana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina is Doctor of Philology, Senior Research Scholar and Chair of the Commission for Research on Dostoevsky at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor in the Russian and Foreign Literature Department of the Moscow Humanities Pedagogical Institute. She is the author of over 190 articles and books on Russian and contemporary literature, literary theory, and culture. Her books include Dostoevsky's Characterology: Emotion and Values (1998) and On the Creative Nature of the Word: The Ontolo!?,) of the Word in F. M. Dostoevsky's Work as the Basis of "Realism in a Higher Sense" (2004), from which the essay in this collection is taken. She is one of the editors of the reference work, Dostoevsia), Aesthetics and Poetics (1997), and editor of F. M. Dostoevsky's Novel "The Idiot": The Current State of Scholarship (2001), Dostoevsky's Collected Works in Nine Volumes (2003-04), F. M. Dostoevsky's Novel "The Brothers Karamazov": The Current State of Scholarship (2007), and Dostoevsky: Supplement to the Commentary (2005), from which the essays by Anna Gumerova, Olga Dekhanova, and Boris Tikhomirov in this collection are taken. She lives in Moscow. v. F. Mo1chanov is Doctor of History and Chief of the Manuscript Research Section of the Russian State Library. He lives in Moscow. Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants is an eminent scholar, philosopher, and culturologist. He is the author of many articles and essays. His books include Emergence from a Trance (1995), Great Religions of the World (with Z. A. Mirkina, 1995), Passionate Partiality and the Impartiality of the Spirit (1998), and Openness to the Abyss: Encounters with Dostoevsky (1989-90), from...

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