Anna Dostoevskaya

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Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya (née Snitkina; Russian: Анна Григорьевна Достоевская; 30 August 1846 – 9 June 1918) was a Russian memoirist, stenographer, and assistant, as well as the second wife (from 1867) of writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. She was also one of the first female philatelists in Russia. Dostoevskaya wrote two biographical books about her husband, Fyodor Dostoevsky, both of which were published posthumously: Anna Dostoyevskaya's Diary in 1867, which was issued in 1923, and Memoirs of Anna Dostoyevskaya (also known as Reminiscence of Anna Dostoyevskaya), in 1925.

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