Russian House in Dhaka on Sunday hosted the opening of the travelling photo exhibition "Fyodor Dostoevsky Among His Characters" from the collection of the Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum in Moscow.
The exhibition consists of 40 photo plates and contains both famous and rare portraits of F Mikhailovich Dostoevsky as well as photographs created in the photo studio of Tver and Staraya Russa, illustrations to the famous works "Crime and Punishment,” "The Idiot,” "Demons,” "The Adolescent” and "The Brothers Karamazov.”
The basis of the exposition was exhibits from the funds of the state museum of Russian literature named after VI Dahl, which contains a collection of memorial items collected by the wife of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, during the lifetime of the great writer.
Two life events at the exhibition are highlighted in particular: Dostoevsky's stay in the Omsk convict prison and the pilgrimage to the Optina Hermitage, where the writer met with Elder Ambrose.
After the opening of the photo exhibition, participants were shown a documentary "Universal Dostoyevsky: Russian writer who united the world.”