Mapping the Slavic World in the Diary of a Writer by F.M. Dostoevsky

The article studies the Slavic world as a political construct, when the Slavic idea was considered by FM. Dostoevsky as central to the mapping of Europe and as the leading force of the future world. Basing on the subjectivist interpretation of the worlds of imagination and concepts, the author emphsises Dostoevsky’s unique communicative model in his book The Diary of a Writer. With its unprecedented audience coverage and style, based on the extrapolation of internal experience, it had a great impact on the worldview of contemporaries. The article deals with the foundation of Dostoevsky’s Slavic world mapping as the opposition of the nascent “Slavic idea” to the two preceding ones – the “Catholic” (France) and the “Protestant” (Germany). The author demonstrates the evolution of these ideas in the modern world.