# Arrest in the Petrashevsky circle case, 23 April 1849

Date: 1849

## The fact

On 23 April 1849 (OS dating of the round-up) [Dostoyevsky](/people/fyodor-dostoyevsky) was arrested with other Petrashevtsy for participation in a discussion circle that read banned socialist and political texts. It is not the December scaffold and not Omsk. The state’s authorship is why contribution is complex; the life still carries the Fact.

## Context

Association was the crime. Shared with Mikhail Petrashevsky and Speshnev’s more radical knot. Demo path: a circle broken. Mixed: some members wanted more than talk. Belinsky’s earlier letter to Gogol, read in the circle, is another person’s text.

Shared responsibility is part of Arrest in the Petrashevsky circle case, 23 April 1849. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1849-04-23 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky independently dates the 1849 arrest. Goslitmuz at https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ is the literary-political archival neighbourhood. Kuznechny museum at https://eng.md.spb.ru/ locates later biographical display, not the arrest.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Circle-arrest is a [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) harm of high confidence and moderate weight in this biography. It is not a unique 1849 headcount of all political prisoners.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 23 April 1849 arrest in the Petrashevsky case. Not established: a unique interrogation transcript in this date field. Distinct from 22 December. Petrashevtsy round-up 23 April 1849 OS, Third Section, banned readings, not Semenovsky Square. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky is not independent https://www.goslitmuz.ru/. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument. Petrashevtsy round-up 23 April 1849 OS, Third Section, banned readings, not Semenovsky Square. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky is not independent https://www.goslitmuz.ru/. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument. Petrashevtsy round-up 23 April 1849 OS, Third Section, banned readings, not Semenovsky Square. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky is not independent https://www.goslitmuz.ru/. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Arrest is not the mock execution and not Omsk arrival. Mixed effects of Arrest in the Petrashevsky circle case, 23 April 1849 are separate paths.

The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: https://factrail.ai/people/fyodor-dostoyevsky

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky
- https://www.goslitmuz.ru/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-petrashevsky-arrest