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Poor Folk appears in Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection, January 1846

In January 1846 Nikolai Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection printed Bednye lyudi (Poor Folk), Dostoyevsky’s first novel, an exchange of letters between a clerk and a young woman on the edge of sale. Day-level mid-January 1846 is the conventional issue neighbourhood; no unique kiosk tally is invented. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In January 1846 Nikolai Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection printed Bednye lyudi (Poor Folk), Dostoyevsky’s first novel, an exchange of letters between a clerk and a young woman on the edge of sale. Day-level mid-January 1846 is the conventional issue neighbourhood; no unique kiosk tally is invented.

Context

Belinsky’s praise made a reputation; that praise is his act, stored only as context. Shared with Nekrasov. The Double, the same year’s other book, is a different instrument.

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

Why it matters

A first novel about clerks and a threatened girl is an education path of high confidence and modest weight. It is not a unique poverty series. Mixed: pity can freeze the poor as objects.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Poor Folk is not The Double and not House of the Dead. Mixed effects of Poor Folk appears in Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection, January 1846 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 0.32 · verified

    Named author of Poor Folk. Nekrasov published the almanac. Direct on the first book.

What changed

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

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

Goslitmuz at https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is the Russian state literary-museum neighbourhood of the manuscripts and first editions. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently dates Poor Folk to 1846. Gutenberg author page at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314 (opens in a new tab) locates later English carriers.

Established: Poor Folk published January 1846. Not established: a unique sales coefficient. Distinct from The Double. Petersburg Collection, Nekrasov, epistolary clerks, January 1846, not katorga and not the Diary. Official https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab).

Shared responsibility is part of Poor Folk appears in Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection, January 1846. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1846-01-15 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.

The contribution type is direct. 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 toFactPoor Folk appears in Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection, January 1846
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Poor Folk appears in Nekrasov’s Petersburg Collection, January 1846. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-poor-folk-1846

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-poor-folk-1846

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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