Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya (née Snitkina) (1846–1918) is the second wife of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. They met in one of the most dramatic periods in the life of the great writer. Dostoevsky was in serious need of money, he was besieged by creditors, plus, Fyodor Mikhailovich, possessed by a morbid passion, was losing his last pennies at roulette. Loneliness and melancholy, more frequent attacks of epilepsy - all together pushed Dostoevsky to sign enslaving contracts with publishers, so two novels were sold for next to nothing: “The Gambler” and “Crime and Punishment”... Anna Snitkina entered Dostoevsky’s life like an angel. a keeper of the hearth, an indispensable assistant and a like-minded person.