STAVROGIN’S CONFESSION. BY F. M. DOSTOEVSKY 17 THE PLAN OF _THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER_. BY F. M. 85 DOSTOEVSKY STAVROGIN’S MEETING WITH TIKHON. BY V. FRICHE 115 INTRODUCTION TO THE UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF _THE 125 POSSESSED_. BY V. KOMAROVICH THE UNFULFILLED IDEA: NOTE ON _THE LIFE OF A GREAT 145 SINNER_. BY N. BRODSKY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW MSS. OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY NOTE BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ON November 12, 1921, in the presence of A. V. Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, and M. N. Pokrovsky, Assistant Commissar of Education, in the Central Archive Department of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic there was opened a white tin case numbered 5038 from the State Archives containing F. M. Dostoevsky’s papers. In the case were twenty-three articles: note-books, bags, and bundles of letters and other documents. On one of these note-books, which is bound (187 numbered pages), is written: “en cas de ma mort ou une maladie grave”; these are business papers and instructions of Anna Grigorevna Dostoevsky, the writer’s wife. On pages 53-55 she has written: “List of note-books in which Fedor Mikhailovich wrote the plans of his novels and also some biographical notes, copies of letters, etc.” Madame A. G. Dostoevsky gives a list of fifteen such note-books with a short description of their contents and disposal: Nos. 1 and 2, _Crime and Punishment_; No. 3, _Crime and Punishment_ and _The Idiot_; Nos. 4-5, _Journal_, 1876; No. 6, _Journal_, 1881; Nos. 7 and 8, _The Raw Youth_; No. 9, _Brothers Karamazov_; No. 10, _The Idiot_; No. 11, _The Eternal Husband_; Nos. 12-15, _The Possessed_. Of these fifteen note-books enumerated by A. G. Dostoevsky the following were deposited on her instructions in the Historical Museum: No. 7, No. 12, and No. 13. Note-book No. 8 was in 1901 “transferred to Lubov Fedorovna Dostoevsky” (Dostoevsky’s daughter), and No. 9 was deposited elsewhere. The other note-books of Dostoevsky given in A. G. Dostoevsky’s list, with the exception of No. 11, _i.e._ Nos. 1-6, 10, 14, and 15, were found in the white case when it was opened on November 12 at the Central Archive Department. On the first page of these note-books A. G. Dostoevsky has, in her own handwriting, given a brief list of their contents, as follows: No. 1 (147 numbered pages) 1. Variant of the novel _Crime and Punishment_, under the title _On Trial_. (Raskolnikov tells his story.) 2. Materials for the novel _Crime and Punishment_. 3. Draft of letter to Katkov. No. 2 (152 pages) 1. Variant of the novel _Crime and Punishment_. 2. Materials for the novel _Crime and Punishment_.