A feuilleton was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle
July 1, 1984 edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The second section is the feuilleton.
A page from the Finnish newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad (1889), showing a "ground floor" feuilleton
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, a
Feuilleton
…and with it that of the author". The feuilleton was a common genre in Russia, especially during the government reforms of Alexander II (1855–1881). Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote feuilletons. The feuilletonistic tendency of his work has been explored by Zhernokleyev. By 1870, Dostoevsky parodied the feuilleton for its…
Fyodor Dostoevsky, by Vasily Perov, c. 1872
Maria Fyodorovna Dostoevskaya
Mikhail Andreyevich Dostoevsky