About the book: 1988 / In the second volume of the Collected Works of F. M. Dostoevsky, the cycle of feuilletons "The Petersburg Chronicle" (1847), the stories "Crawlers", "Alien" are published wife and husband under the bed”, “Honest Thief”, “Christmas Tree and Wedding”, the story “Weak Heart”, “sentimental novel” (“from the memories of a dreamer”) “White Nights” and the remaining unfinished “Netochka Nezvanova”. These stories and tales were created in St. Petersburg before Dostoevsky’s conviction in the Petrashevsky case and were published in 1848–1849. The story “The Little Hero,” written during imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1849, was published by the writer’s brother MM Dostoevsky without indicating the author’s name in 1857. “Uncle’s Dream,” the idea of ​​which arose and was carried out in Semipalatinsk, was published in 1859.