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A Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer

From 1849 the Third Section and successor offices kept Dostoyevsky as a political file, an archive of a person as risk. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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From 1849 the Third Section and successor offices kept Dostoyevsky as a political file, an archive of a person as risk. It is not the scaffold minute and not the Diary as his own civic file. Data path: non-consensual state publicity-and-storage of a writer.

Context

Autocratic surveillance. Shared with clerks who wrote. Distinct from his later conservative closeness to power, which did not delete the old file. Medium on later-year active watching; high on 1849 opening.

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

Why it matters

It is not GDPR. Distinct from A Writer’s Diary as his own publication.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The Third Section file is not the Diary he edited. Mixed effects of A Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Named subject of a political police dossier. The Third Section wrote it. Complex surveillance.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactA Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1849 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Fyodor DostoyevskyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (Goslitmuz)Vladimir Dahl State Literary Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently frames the political-police case. Goslitmuz at https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is the literary-political archive neighbourhood. No unique folio count is invented.

Established: a political file from 1849. Not established: a unique page-count or that every later year was active tailing. Distinct from 22 December theatre. Third Section dossier from the 1849 case, person as security object, not Semenovsky’s twenty minutes. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab).

Shared responsibility is part of A Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1849-01-01 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.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. contributed toFactA Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). A Third Section police file is opened and kept on the writer. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-police-file

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-police-file

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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