Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2018-1-21-58 Articles F.M. Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer (1876): about the Peasant Marey Vetlovskaya Valentina V. fedor@dostmirkult.ru 2021 1 1 21 58 K. Aksakov peasant Marey Marius Rome Volga Mikula civilizations formulae ideals Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article concerns one of the fictional pieces in Dostoevsky’s «A Writer’s Diary», namely «The Peasant Marey», and its publicistic context. Some factual, literature and folklore sources are named. It is the author’s opinion that the final goal of using them is widening of chronological and extensional bounds of the narrative; as a result, the particular case the story is based on takes a new meaning and lets Dostoevsky reason about West European and Slavic / Russian civilizations.