Sceny investitury v "Annalach" Tacita, "Borise Godunove" Puškina i "Besach" Dostoyevskogo

An aspect which has not been really taken into account by the critics is the connection between Latin historiography, in particular Tacitus, and the works of Dostoevsky. However, in his Diary of a writer (1876) Dostoevsky draws an immediate link between lawyer V. Spasovich (the model for the character of Fetyukovich) and the Tacitean Vibulenus. The passion of the Russian writer for Tacitean historiography derived not only from a direct reading of Tacitus in Latin, Russian and French translations, but also from the mediation of N. Karamzin’s and A.S. Pushkin’s works. This paper proposes an analysis of The Possessed highlighting how Dostoevsky's style reveals the influence of the Annals in the narrator's delineation of characters and plot development, in order to address fundamental issues such as the role of the usurper and suicide.