
Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Любовь Фёдоровна Достоевская; 1869—1926) was a Russian writer, memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year. Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot. Due to having weak health, nervous system problems, and constant relationship failures, Lyubov had become arrogant, haughty, and peevish. She never married. In later life she became estranged from her mother and moved out of their house. In 1913, after a trip abroad for medical treatment, Lyubov decided to stay there, and she lived abroad until her death in 1926. At that period she was also known under the name Aimee Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Эме Достоевская). She died in Italy of pernicious anemia. Although Lyubov Dostoyevskaya was Orthodox, a funeral rite was Catholic by mistake. A simple wooden cross on her grave was soon replaced by a small porphyry tomb. In 1931 Italia Letteraria magazine suggested that since Dostoyevskaya was buried in Italy, it is the Italian government that should establish a memorial. On December 1931 a granite pedestal was constructed, with an epitaph written by the editor of Venezia Tridentina magazine. Resting place of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter in Gries has been preserved after cemetery reconstruction. Her tomb was moved to Bolzano city's cemetery. Lyubov Dostoyevskaya is most well known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter (German: Dostoejewski geschildert von seiner Tochter, also known as Dostoyevsky According to His Daughter), originally published in Munich in 1920. Her memoirs, written in French and published in German, were later translated in other European languages. In 1920 the book was released in Dutch (in Arnhem), the following year there were translations into Swedish and English, in 1922 it was published in the United States and Italy. Russian version, highly abridged, was published in 1922 by Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo (Saint Petersburg) under the title "Достоевский в изображении его дочери Л. Достоевской". This work contains many factual inaccuracies, partially because at the year of her father's death Lyubov Dostoyevskaya was only 11, and partially because she based the memoirs on her mother's stories. Many researchers tend to see this memoirs as subjective and unreliable, for example, Dostoyevskaya is biased in the description of relationships between Dostoyevsky and his first wife, Mariya Isayeva. The hatred towards Isayeva was experienced by both Lyubov and Anna, her mother. Her other works include short stories collection Bolnye devushki (Russian: Больные девушки; 1911), novels Emigrantka (Эмигрантка; 1912) and Advokatka (Адвокатка; 1913).