Here you will find a searchable repository of the names of Dostoevsky's characters. The collection is humble. If you'd like to help, please do!
Novel Characters:
If you would obsessively like to help with this obsessive collection, here's what could be helpful:
- Character lists from other stories/novels; full names, with titles where they exist, and a short description (not giving away any points of plot) stating who or what they are related to in the story (so they can be grouped).
- Any missing characters from stories already listed.
- Alternate spellings/translations of the names might be helpful to catalog.
- Any other corrections or suggestions!
- Look over what's here, and you'll get the idea.
If you are so inclined, do not hesitate to send any or all of the above.
The History of Here...
After the traumatic experience of not being able to remember Ippolit's name, I thought I might jot down all the characters names as I came across them the next time I read The Idiot. This I did. The exciting list of names then proceded to sit dormant for a few years---so far I haven't needed it, as I've not once forgotten Ippolit's name in all that time. Hurray! Then one day I thought: hey, just maybe, by some freakish chance, someone might find this list handy; although it seems unlikely, perhaps someone else has forgotten Ippolit's name? So I started converting my list into a web-friendly format. Half way through that, I thought---mmmm, would it be ridiculously nuts to convert this into an actual database? Yes, yes it would. So here we are. And that is the story of that.