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Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova (Russian: Аполлина́рия Проко́фьевна Су́слова; 1839–1918), commonly known as Polina Suslova (Поли́на Су́слова), was a Russian short story writer, who is perhaps best known as a mistress of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wife of Vasily Rozanov and a sister of ...
Feb 4, 2018 · Polina Suslova was imperious, manipulative, jealous, and she constantly demanded that he divorce his “consumptive wife” Maria Isayeva. Dostoyevsky later noted that she was “a sick selfish woman”, whose “selfishness and self-esteem were colossal” and who did not tolerate any imperfection in other people.
Nov 11, 2021 · He had an unhappy love affair with Polina Suslova, a nihilist with whom he traveled across Germany. The writer also had a gambling addiction, and would spend hours at the roulette...
Mar 2, 2021 · The writer was having an affair with a young woman named Polina Suslova, whom he met in Paris in 1862 and who was 20 years his junior. The relationship lasted for a few years before Suslova broke off the relationship to be with another man.
Appollinaria (“Polina”) Suslova was twenty-one when she submitted a short story that was the “perfect expression of the nascent women’s movement” to the literary journal Time, which he and his brother co-founded to “bridge the gap between the common people and the educated classes.”
Paris in 1862, fell in love with Polina Suslova, 20 years his junior, who remained his mistress for a few years. This affair ended in 1863 when Polina rejected Dostoyevsky’s love for another man. Dostoyevsky scholars acknowledge that Polina inspired his portrayal of Polina Alexandrovna in The Gambler and that it was his own tempestuous
Mar 24, 2021 · Alex Christofi, author of Dostoevsky in Love, traces the pre–Crime and Punishment love affair of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Polina Suslova, a young, dazzling Russian radical.
