Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky
(born 1787 or 1788; died 1839)
BIRTH
1787 or 1788 (archival records conflict)
PLACE
Voytovtsy, Bratslav region (now Ukraine)
DEATH
June 18, 1839 (June 6 Old Style)
PLACE
near Darovoe, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
FAMILY
FATHER
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1821-1881)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky was Fyodor Dostoevsky’s father and a physician at the Moscow Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor.
EARLY LIFE
He worked as a doctor at the Mariinsky Hospital and later owned an estate at Darovoe. The family’s hospital residence shaped Fyodor’s Moscow childhood.
CAREER
DEATH
He was found dead near the Darovoe estate on June 6, 1839 (Old Style). Contemporary documents describe a sudden death or apoplexy. A later story that peasants murdered him is disputed by archival researchers.
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