Abstract
There is a lot of evidence that a great Russian writer and essayist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffered from epilep‑ sy. Not only this disease had influence on Dostoevsky’s personality and social life, but also affected his creative work. Dostoevsky is believed to suffer from mesiobasal temporal lobe epilepsy with an ecstatic aura – a form named after him afterwards.
Highlights
Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute – a branch of the V
There is a lot of evidence that a great Russian writer and essayist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffered from epilep‐ sy
Dostoevsky is believed to suffer from mesiobasal temporal lobe epilepsy with an ecstatic aura – a form named after him afterwards
Summary
Биографы писателя считают, что в действительности этот эпизод в жизни Достоевского не происходил (хотя и был описан им в «Бесах»). Что первый припадок у Достоевского возник еще раньше – в детском возрасте, когда однажды ночью, разбуженный криками матери, он вошел в спальню родителей и увидел, как его отец избивает рыдающую мать. Яновский писал: «...Федор Михайлович Достоевский страдал падучею болезнью еще в Петербурге, и притом за три, а может быть, и более лет до арестования его по делу Петрашевского, а следовательно, и до ссылки в Сибирь.
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