About the 27th International Readings Dostoevsky’s Works in the Perception of 21st-Century Readers, April 8–10, 2025

Abstract

The material is devoted to the 27th International Readings Dostoevsky’s Works in the Perception of 21st-Century Readers, held on April 8–10, 2025 in the city of Staraya Russa, Novgorod region. The conference was traditionally organized by the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Commission for the Study of Dostoevsky’s Creative Heritage of the Scientific Council History of World Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was attended by more than 50 researchers from Russia and the USA. The focal text for most presentations, the roundtable discussion, and the seminar was the sentimental novel White Nights.

Keywords

• fyodor dostoevsky
• white nights
• night literature
• romanticism
• daydreaming
• the barber of seville
• the battle of berezina
• another love