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Anna Dostoevsky

  • From a timid, shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

    • Anna Dostoevsky,
    • in S. S. Koteliansky, trans., ed., Dostoevsky Portrayed by His Wife, The Diary and Reminiscences of Mme. Dostoevsky ()

Anna Dostoevsky, Russian diarist, literary figure

(1846 - 1918)