Leaving his wife alone in Dresden, Dostoevsky went to Homburg to visit a casino. From there, he was completely engulfed by the fever of gambling...

ドイツ西部の有名保養地バーデン・バーデンへと移った二人。ドストエフスキーはここのカジノで狂ったようにルーレットにのめり込む。

In this article, we will look at such Dostoevsky's madness and Mrs. Anna's days of despair.

Just as he was enjoying a peaceful and happy life in Dresden, the whispers of the devil finally began to peck at Dostoevsky.

The dreaded demon of gambling addiction, which had been tormenting them from this point on, finally began to show its face. It was the beginning of Dostoevsky, "the worst of the worst."

Dostoevsky had left his wife alone in a foreign city and gone to a casino.

The Dostoevsky couple stayed in Berlin for two days and soon left for the next city. Their destination was Dresden, an ancient city located south of Berlin.

Here the couple lived and enjoyed painting and music.

In this article I will discuss them and my experiences there.

I was very happy to see something other than the standard Dostoevsky paintings, such as "The Sistine Madonna" and "Achis and Galateia. In terms of learning about Dostoevsky's painting preferences, the experience at the Dresden Picture Gallery was very gratifying, as we were able to compare various paintings.

The Dostoevskys left Petersburg for Europe on April 14.

The route was Berlin, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Basel, Geneva, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Venice, Prague, and Dresden (*excluding transit points).

Their journey, which was originally scheduled to last about three months at the time of their departure, lasted a whopping four years.

This article will talk about their first stop, Berlin.

We have looked at Dostoevsky's financial situation, his epilepsy and the problems he faced, and finally we will look at his family environment.

In fact, it was this family environment that was the most difficult for Mrs. Anna's newlywed life.

It may seem like a common practice to bully one's wife, but this is the Dostoevsky family. But the Dostoevsky family is not a simple family, and Anna had to endure a number of hardships.

In our previous article, we discussed Dostoevsky's financial situation, but debt was not the only problem he had.

Dostoevsky's epilepsy is portrayed through Marquis Myshkin, the hero of his masterpiece "The Idiot," and through Smerzhakov in "The Brothers Karamazov. It is particularly significant that "The Idiot" was written during a trip to Europe with his wife Anna. Dostoevsky had to live in constant fear of epileptic seizures.