Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya was a Russian memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoevsky. She was also one of the first female philatelists in Russia. She wrote two biographical books about Fyodor Dostoevsky: Anna Dostoyevskaya's Diary in 1867, which was published in 1923 after her death, and Memoirs of Anna Dostoyevskaya, published in 1925.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.