Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva
(d. 1864)
BIRTH
1824
PLACE
Taganrog, Russia
NAME
Maria Dmitrievna Konstant
DEATH
April 15, 1864
PLACE
Moscow, Russia
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1821-1881)
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Masha
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Maria Isaeva was the first wife of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky met the couple in 1854 and fell in love with her. Dostoevsky pursued her despite a rival and his own lack of money, and they married in Kuznetsk in February 1857. Maria suffered from tuberculosis, which grew worse. Scholars often see her as a model for Katerina Ivanovna in Crime and Punishment. She spent her last months in Moscow and died there on April 15, 1864.
EARLY LIFE
Maria Dmitrievna Konstant was born in 1824 in Taganrog, the daughter of Dmitry Konstant, a quarantine official of French descent. She married Alexander Isaev, a customs official who later worked in Semipalatinsk, in Siberia, where Dostoevsky served as a soldier after his release from prison. Dostoevsky met the couple in 1854 and fell in love with her. The Isaevs moved to Kuznetsk, and Alexander died there in 1855, leaving Maria a poor widow with a young son, Pavel.
Dostoevsky pursued her despite a rival and his own lack of money, and they married in Kuznetsk in February 1857. The marriage was troubled.
In 1859 the couple settled in Tver and then St. Petersburg, where Dostoevsky took up his writing career again. Maria suffered from tuberculosis, which grew worse.
She spent her last months in Moscow and died there on April 15, 1864. Scholars often see her as a model for Katerina Ivanovna in Crime and Punishment.
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Maria Isaeva was the first wife of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky met the couple in 1854 and fell in love with her. Dostoevsky pursued her despite a rival and his own lack of money, and they married in Kuznetsk in February 1857. In 1859 the couple settled in Tver and then St. Petersburg, where Dostoevsky took up his writing career again. Maria suffered from tuberculosis, which grew worse. Scholars often see her as a model for Katerina Ivanovna in Crime and Punishment. Maria Isaeva died on Apr 15, 1864, in Moscow, Russia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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