The remains of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s mother, Maria Fyodorovna, were reburied near the family estate in the Moscow region, Dostoyevsky Foundation President Igor Volgin told RIA Novosti on Friday.
She was buried on Wednesday at an old church graveyard in the village of Monogarovo, the Zaraisk district, near the Dostoyevskys’ family estate of Darovoye, some 150 km southeast of Moscow.
The ceremony was attended by Dostoyevsky’s grandson, Dmitry, St. Petersburg Dostoyevsky Museum director Natalya Ashimbayeva, Igor Volgin, and others.
Maria Fyodorovna was initially buried in 1838 at a Moscow cemetery that was subsequently closed and her remains were kept at the Anthropology Museum of Moscow State University since 1934.
The Dostoyevsky Foundation is planning next to move the gravestone from Maria Fyodorovna’s original grave, which is currently stored at the Moscow Literature Museum, to her latest burial.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.
