Dostoevsky’s Godchildren

The article, based on archival sources, provides new information abouttwo godchildren of F.M. Dostoevsky: Platon Milyukov (with clarification of thename, date and place of his baptism) and Grigoriy Snitkin (the fact of the writer'sparticipation in the baptism has not yet been noted in the biographical literature).Two authentic metric records found in the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburgare put into scientific circulation, allowing to supplement or correct the informationcontained in the “Chronicle of the life and work” of the writer. The attraction ofdocumentary sources (stored in the Russian State Historical Archive of service andform lists), analysis of the preserved epistolary, reference and biographical literatureallowed to attempt to systematize all available data about Grigoriy Ivanovich Snitkinand for the first time to make a biographical reference about his person, native nephewof Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevsky and godson of the writer – thus adding informationabout F.M. Dostoevsky’s family circle.