Diary of the writer

Dostoevsky had a propensity for publicism from the first period of his creative work, when in 1847 his feuilletons "Petersburg Chronicle" were published. After a long forced interruption of hard labor and exile, the writer''s attraction to the coverage of topical problems was embodied in the publication of the magazines "Time" and "Epoch". In the first January issue of the weekly magazine "Grazhda...