Dostoevsky's father

[Michael Katz]

I haven't a clue. It's just what I read in the Encyclopedia. Maybe you
should contact Kenneth Lantz at Toronto.

Michael Katz

> From: Michael Denner <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
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> 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
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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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> 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
> 
>> From: Michael Denner <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
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>> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:48:25 -0400
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>> Subject: [SEELANGS] Dostoevsky's father
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Curious,
>> 
>> 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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