The traits of Apollinaria Suslova can be discerned in almost all women created by Dostoevsky’s imagination. And if you unravel at least something in the relationship between these two people, then much can be more clearly imagined in the writer’s work, and in his life, and in how and according to what laws this life turned into unique literary images. So that the reader can form an understanding of these intricate relationships, we suggest, in addition to the author’s narration, to read Ap’s diary. Suslova, as well as a story and a novel, in which both Suslova and Dostoevsky exchanged everything that they had endured and thought about each other. These two works - “Alien and Our Own” by A. Suslova and “The Player” by F. Dostoevsky are an extraordinary phenomenon in the history of literature. Never before have two people who have wasted love been presented in literature with such depth, appealing to the protection of the reader, this most grandiose jury. Suslova's diary and story were published in Russia only once, in 1928, by the publishing house of the brothers M. and S. Sabashnikov.