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The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals
... It was so strong that I had to ask passers-by to take him to the nearest drugstore, and we could hardly revive him. Usually, after such fits, he experienced a depression which lasted for two or three days" (Sekirin, 1997). ...
... He was bareheaded, his coat was unbuttoned, and his tie was loosened. Some officer in a military uniform was supporting him by the elbow" (Sekirin, 1997). ...
... You know, one could not cure this illness. All I could do was to loosen the upper button of his shirt and take his head into my hands" (Sekirin, 1997). ...
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (Moscow, 1821-Saint Petersburg, 1881) suffered epilepsy throughout his whole literary career. The aim here is to understand his condition in light of his novels, correspondence, and his contemporaries' accounts as well as through the eyes of later generations of neurologists. From Murin (The landlady, 1847) to Smerdyakov (The brothers Karamazov, 1880), Dostoevsky portrayed up to six characters with epilepsy in his literature. The first symptoms of the disease presented in early adulthood, but he was only diagnosed with epilepsy a decade later. In 1863 he went abroad seeking expert advice from the famous neurologists Romberg and Trousseau. Dostoevsky made an intelligent use of epilepsy in his literature (of his experiential auras or dreamy states particularly) and through it found a way to freedom from perpetual military servitude. His case offers an insight into the natural history of epilepsy (a cryptogenic localization related one of either fronto-medial or temporal lobe origin using contemporary medical terms), thus inspiring later generations of writers and neurologists. Furthermore, it illustrates the good use of an ordinary neurological disorder by an extraordinary writer who transformed adversity into opportunity.
... In October 1844, during a walk along Troitsky Street with Grigorovitch, his former roommate at the Military Academy of Engineers, Dostoevsky experienced a serious epileptic fit. 3 The first physician to witness the after effects of his seizures, however, was Dr Stefan Ianovsky, with whom the writer would develop a lifelong friendship. On 7 July 1847, Ianovsky observed: ...
... Some officer in a military uniform was supporting him by the elbow. 3 Dostoevsky's epilepsy has been the subject of some debate among 20th century neurologists and several paleodiagnoses have been attempted. 4 Based on modern diagnostic criteria, Dostoevsky's disease falls into the category of cryptogenic localisationrelated epilepsy. ...
... Not true. I am only a realist in a higher sense" [as quoted infSekirin, P. (1997). The Dostoevsky Archive. ...
This study examined the relationships between perception of managerial behaviours and employees’ work-related attitude. Participants (N = 123; 51 females and 72 males) were employees working in the public (N = 65)/private (N = 58) sector. Five self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. The protocol included a form for demographic and professional status, a scale designed to capture job satisfaction, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and Job Involvement Questionnaire, and a questionnaire designed to assess the perception that employees have about attitudes and behaviours of their managers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis, and bivariate linear regression. Except the perception about managerial style, no significant difference was observed between employees working in public sector and those working in the private sector. Based on the total sample, the perception about managerial style positively predicted work engagement, job involvement, and job satisfaction, while work engagement and job involvement were positive predictors of job satisfaction.
Keywords: managerial behaviours, work-related attitudes, work engagement, job involvement, job satisfaction, correlational study
... Petersburg that "for three years, I was hungry all the time, every day." 5 Fëdor Dostoevskii grew up at the hospital for the poor in Moscow where his father was a physician; as a child, he was traumatized by seeing one of his playmates, a servant's daughter, bleed to death after being raped by a drunk. 6 Life experiences such as these led Nekrasov, Dostoevskii, and other contemporaries to write about the city in ways that laid bare the tensions between theory and reality in the urban social order. ...
This study aimed to explore: a) the intrinsic and extrinsic work-related factors which constitute sources of stress among police workers and b) the relations between stress, frequency of complaints and satisfaction in terms of physical health, frequency of burnout symptoms, and the level of work satisfaction. A total of 63 police workers (males) completed a protocol that included five standardized questionnaires. Poor remuneration and insufficient additional material rewards, bureaucracy, poor logistical resource planning, non-recognition of work merits or notable professional achievements, and insufficiency of opportunities regarding the professional promotion have emerged as factors that contribute to stress to a greater extent than other intrinsic or extrinsic aspects. Linear regression analysis data revealed significant relations between the overall level of stress and: a) frequency of symptoms in terms of physical functioning; b) satisfaction with the overall physical health status; c) frequency of emotional exhaustion (as burnout facet) and d) work satisfaction. Stress accounted between 12.5% and 25.40% of the variance in dependent variables.
Keywords: police workers, occupational stress, burnout, physical symptoms, correlational study.
One cannot truly begin to understand Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) while remaining unaware that many of his literary undertakings constitute hostile reactions to the West. These reactions no doubt were heightened by his negative perceptions of the industrial exhibitions housed in and around London in 1851 and 1862. Dostoyevsky’s harsh critique of nineteenth-century globalization was in fact generated during his first tour of Western Europe, which included an eight-day visit to London at the time of the Great London Exposition of 1862. As a tourist, Dostoyevsky evidently viewed the Crystal Palace, the astonishing glass-and-iron edifice (expanded and transported to a new location) that had housed the 1851 fair, and there the novelist read meanings and sensed implications that severely contradicted his Russian values. The next year, in Russia, he published Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, in which he presented the Crystal Palace as a symbol of the controlling mechanism of utilitarian rationalism, a creation of Baal that would offer material abundance while demanding the sacrifice of spirit, autonomy, and authenticity. Dostoyevsky’s obsession with the symbol of the Crystal Palace was “henceforth to enter into everything he wrote.”1
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