[92]. The author of this article, published in Builoe, No. 18, 1922, seems at the time of writing to have been ignorant of the version of Stavrogin’s Confession published by the Central Archives.—Translators.
[93]. Reminiscences of Childhood, by Sophie Kovalevsky.
[94]. See Dostoevsky’s Biography, Letters, etc., pp. 202, 233, etc., in the original.
[95]. See “Dostoevsky as contributor to Russkìi Vèstnik” in Builoe, No. 14, 1919; F. M. D.’s unpublished letters from 1866 to 1873.
[96]. See The Possessed (original), Edition 1888, vol. vii. pp. 212-213.
[97]. See ibid. p. 238.
[98]. Compare the passage in Stavrogin’s Confession from “A year ago, in the spring, going through Germany, I absentmindedly left the station behind me,” to the words “A whole shaft of bright slanting rays from the setting sun rushed out and poured their light over me,” with the corresponding passage of Chapter VII., Part III., of The Raw Youth, third edition, 1888, pp. 461-462.
[99]. Prince V. M., Reminiscences of F. M. Dostoevsky, “Dobro,” No. 2-3, 1881.
[100]. From unpublished materials.
[101]. “This future novel has been tormenting me now for more than three years.”