English to Russian Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky’s offer to publisher Prince Meshchersky to assume the editorship of The Citizen may have been prompted by his expectation that its reputation as a conservative watch-dog publication, whose contributors included some highly-placed State officials and censors, would protect him from fall-outs with post-publication censorship; simultaneously, it would enable him to publish on some sensitive topics, make a start on his “Diary”, self-fashion his image and settle some personal scores.