About the book: 1971 / This book aims to determine the role of music in the life and work of Dostoevsky, as well as the significance of the writer’s legacy for music. Throughout his life, Dostoevsky had a deep interest in theater - musical and dramatic. The work makes an attempt to determine the role and nature of theatrical impressions in the formation of the writer’s artistic plans. However, music and theater were only elements of the artist’s creative consciousness, a small world, and it should be mentally correlated with that huge and complex one, whose name is Dostoevsky.