Dostoevsky's father

[Michael Denner]

Michael!
I'm right in thinking that M. A. D., as a military doctor (штаб-лекарь), would not have been granted  one of the гражданские чины like  коллежский асессор (eight rank), rather one of the military ranks, logically майор, the equivalent in army terms... Is the dictionary wrong? Perhaps medical personnel are an exception? 

mad (but not FMD's father)
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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Program
Director, Honors Program
Stetson University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Katz [mailto:mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Dostoevsky's father

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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> Subject: [SEELANGS] Dostoevsky's father
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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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> Dr. Michael A. Denner
> Russian Studies Program
> Director, Honors Program
> Stetson University
> Campus Box 8361
> DeLand, FL 32724
> 386.822.7381 (department)
> 386.822.7265 (direct line)
> 386.822.7380 (fax)
> http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
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