Dostoevsky's father

[Michael Katz]

According to the entry in my spanking new Dostoevsky Encyclopedia by Kenneth
Lantz (which arrived in the mail today!), M.A. Dostoevsky "attained the rank
of collegiate assessor, entitling him to claim hereditary nobility status,
which he did in 1828." (p. 108)

Michael Katz
Middlebury College

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> Does anyone know the rank that M. A. Dostoevsky (F. M.'s father)
> achieved? I have read two conflicting accounts whether or not his father
> reached a sufficiently high rank to receive hereditary nobility. (I
> suspect it has to do with the changes to the Table instituted in 1845.)
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> Curious,
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> mad
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