Marking the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky: love in the writer's works

On January 17, 2022 the Presidential Library hosted a video lecture entitled "Love in Dostoevsky's Artistic Experience: Defining Value" as part of the Knowledge of Russia project. The event was the tenth in the series of lectures "Fyodor Dostoevsky – the Conversation about Values", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the world famous writer.

The video lecture is available on the institution's YouTube channel.

Dmitry Bogach, PhD in Philology, Head of the Department of Digital Didactics at the St. Petersburg Radio Engineering College talked about the embodiment of love as one of the highest values ​​in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The video lecture participants learned that, in Dostoevsky's understanding, love is determined by the common ideals and values ​​of people which live in harmony with each other according to the highest Christian laws and unite with God based on these values ​​- the inability to stay away from someone else's grief, an insatiable thirst to help another by active action, responsiveness and responsibility for the fate of their neighbors.

The lecture focused on the different types of love depicted by the Russian writer: active, compassionate love and sick and voluptuous love. Listeners were able to make sure that in the artistic world of Dostoevsky, humiliated and insulted, unhappy and sometimes devoted to relatives and friends, people were able to find themselves thanks to the power of true love, in which a person does not lose, but gains; thanks to the sacred understanding that everyone is responsible for everyone, everyone is to blame for everyone.

One can learn more about the writer from the materials of the special digital collection of the Presidential Library Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). It includes copies of the texts of the writer's works and materials about his life and career.

Interactive lessons and video lectures are regularly held at the Presidential Library. They are available on the institution's portal in the Multimedia lessons section and in the Video lecture to school section, as well as on the Presidential Library's YouTube channel, where records of past lectures and open lessons are presented.