Andrey Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (russian: Андрей Михайлович Достоевский; – ) was a Russian architect, engineer, memoirist, and building restorer. He was also the father of renowned histologist Alexander Dostoyevsky and the brother of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. While not as close to Fyodor as their elder brother Mikhail, Andrey and Fydor maintained a friendly relationship throughout their lives, even corresponding regularly. Andrey Dostoyevsky's ''Memoirs'' (russian: Воспоминания, ''Vospominania''), first published in 1930, offer valuable insights into the early years of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life. Covering the period from 1825 to 1871, the ''Memoirs'' were written in just eight months between 1895 and 1896.

Career

In late 1841, Andrey Dostoyevsky moved to Saint Petersburg. The following year, he entered the

Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) (russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (СПбГА ...

, graduating in June 1848. Subsequently, he worked as an engineer in Saint Petersburg. He had none of the literary talent of his brothers Fyodor and Mikhail. In 1849 Andrey was arrested as a member of Petrashevsky Circle and placed in

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, because he was mistaken for Mikhail. 13 days later, Andrey was released, but this incident ruined his career. Because of the relations to Dostoyevsky family, he was sent out of Saint Petersburg and appointed as head architect in Elisavetgrad. In July 1850 Andrey Dostoyevsky married Domnika Fedorchenko. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Andrey Dostoyevsky worked as an architect in Elisavetgrad, Simferopol,

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. In 1865, he was appointed at Yaroslavl guberniya, where he served on various positions for more than twenty-five years. Widowed in 1887, after his retirement in 1890 he lived alone. In 1897, he died of cancer.

Projects

1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...

— approved as an architect of the bell tower near the Annunciation church in Yaroslavl; observed the church expanding in Uglich district; designed a

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in the town of Mologa. * 1867—

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

— supervised a church reconstruction in Krasnov village (Rostov uyezd). *

1880 Events January–March * January 22 – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland, Australia. * January – The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy. * February � ...

— a match factory project for merchant Dunaev (Yaroslavl). *

1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...

— chemical factory design near

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; iron factory design in Yaroslavl. *

— reconstruction project of the stone chapel in Malo-Bogorodskoye village ( Myshkin uyezd). *

1883 Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * Ja ...

— approved a draft project of the bleaching facility near Stepanovo village on Kotorosl River. *

1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...

— a project of Nativity of the Theotokos church in Breytovo village ( Mologa uyezd). *

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...

— a stone bell tower project for a church in Dmitrovskoye village ( Poshekh uyezd). *

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— a new bell tower project of the Dormition of the Theotokos church in Zakobyakino village ( Lyubim uyezd); a weaving factory project near Nagatino village. *

1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...

— a project of five-storey steam mill in Poshekhonye.

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