Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2021-2-128-150 Articles Dostoevsky’s Creative Diaries: The Adolescent Tarasova Natalia A. fedor@dostmirkult.ru 25 06 2021 1 2 128 150 Dostoevsky Lermontov Pushkin The Adolescent The Life of a Great Sinner textual criticism creative history of a work of art Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The work deals with the textual study of rough manuscripts of the novel The Adolescent, specifically the correction of publisher’s errors in reading the manuscripts, together with the study of Dostoevsky’s creative process and the shaping of the concept of the novel in the phase of rough drafts. The article analyzes the connections between The Adolescent and Dostoevsky’s unrealized plan for The Life of a Great Sinner, as well as Pushkin and Lermontov’s motifs that were important for Dostoevsky’s creative method during the his work on the novel The Adolescent.