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Anna Dostoyevskaya, c1866. Portrait of the Russian writer, philatelist, memoirist, stenographer, and assistant (1846-1918) and wife of Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky. She was also one of the first female philatelists in Russia. From "Dostoevsky Portrayed by his Wife" by Mme Dostoevsky. Translated from the Russian and edited by S.S. Koteliansky. [London, 1926].