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L. F. (Liubov Fedorovna) Dostoevskaia
1869–1926
Best known as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s daughter, she also built a literary life of her own as a memoirist and biographer. Writing under the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya, she left a personal, sometimes intimate view of one of Russia’s most famous literary families.
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The Emigrant
by L. F. (Liubov Fedorovna) Dostoevskaia
About the author
Born in Dresden in 1869, Liubov Fedorovna Dostoevskaia was the daughter of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anna Dostoevskaya. She became a Russian writer and memoirist, and is also known by the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya.
Her work is especially remembered for its connection to her father’s life and legacy. She wrote memoirs and a study of Dostoevsky that helped shape how later readers pictured him, offering a daughter’s perspective rather than a distant scholarly one.
She died in 1926 in Italy. Today, her writing remains of interest not only for what it says about the Dostoevsky family, but also for the way it preserves a personal voice from the edge of a major literary world.