RUDN Journal of PhilosophyRUDN Journal of Philosophy2313-23022408-8900Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2591210.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-1-59-71Research ArticleThe "Meek" and "Proud" Types of Female Images in the Works of F.M. Dostoevsky: A Study of the Question of VirtueKosorukovaAlexandra A.<p>Senior lecturer, Department of ethics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</p>kosorukova_aa@rudn.ruZubkovaUlyana V.<p>Magistracy student, Department of ethics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</p>1032192483@rudn.ruРeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)15122021251597116032021Copyright © 2021, Kosorukova A.A., Zubkova U.V.2021<p style="text-align: justify;">The article analyzes the types of "meek" and "proud" female images in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky in connection with the typologies of the images of the writer among the literary critics N.A. Dobrolyubov, V.F. Pereverzev and A.A. Gizetti. The article refers to the classical authors of the early critical understanding of Dostoevsky's works, who divided female images into two opposite types of the "meek" and "proud". At the same time, the article emphasizes the idea that in Dostoevsky's polyphonic world every literary hero has a multidimensional consciousness, which is why the direct dichotomous division into the "proud" and "meek" can only be a rough generalization. The first part of the article examines the typologies of N.A. Dobrolyubov, as well as one of V.F. Pereverzev, who creates the most ambitious and significant typology, considering female images. He sensitively notices the ambiguity and tragedy of Dostoevsky's heroines and introduces the term "the doppelgngerwoman" into the typology of female images, on the basis of which each heroine somehow contains a certain internal conflict, the solution of which in the course of a novel allows her character to develop towards one of the indicated subtypes. The second part of the article analyzes the typology of A.A. Gizetti, who in his research focuses on such type of Dostoevsky's female images as the "proud", highlighting a new, "mysterious" subtype of the Dostoevsky's proud heroine. In the performed comparison of "meek" and "proud" types of female images it is considered to distinguish positive and negative ethical meanings of them. The article formulates conclusions about the various subtypes of "meek" and "proud" characters in the writer's artistic world, and outlines the grounds for further system of understanding of meekness and pride on a scale of correlation with vice and virtue.</p>F.M. Dostoevskyethicsvirtuefemale imagesmeeknessprideФ.М. Достоевскийэтикадобродетельженские образыкротостьгордость[Bakhtin MM. Problems of Dostoevsky's Art. Leningrad: Priboj; 1929. (In Russian).][Dobrolyubov NА. Downtrodden people. In: Russian classics: Selected literary criticism articles. Moscow: Nauka publ.; 1970. P. 301—346. (In Russian).][Pereverzev VF. Dostoevsky's works. Moscow: Sovremennye Problemy; 1912. (In Russian).][Gizetti AA. Proud heathens. In: Creative way of Dostoevsky. A collection of articles. Brodsky NL, editor. Leningrad; 1924. P. 186—196. (In Russian).][Lossky NO. Dostoevsky and his Christian Understanding of the World. New-York: Chekhov Publishing house; 1953. (In Russian).][Dostoevsky FM. Crime and Punishment. In: Dostoevsky FM. Collected works in 15 vol. Vol. 5. Leningrad: Nauka publ.; 1989. (In Russian).][Dostoevsky FM. The writer's diary. In: Dostoevsky FM. Complete works in 30 vol. Vol. 24. Leningrad: Nauka publ.; 1982. P. 5—35. (In Russian).][Aquinas Thomas. The Summa theologiae. Vol. 5. Kiev: Nika-Centr; 2008. (In Russian).][Bishop Ignatius (Brianchaninov). Selected creations. Ascetic experiments. In 2 vols. Volume I. Moscow: Siberian Blagozvonnitsa; 2012. Available from: https://azbyka.ru/ otechnik/Ignatij_Brjanchaninov/tom1_asketicheskie_opyty/. (In Russian).][Dostoevsky FM. The Brothers Karamazov. Saint Petersburg: Azbuka, Azbuka-Attikus publ.; 2019. (In Russian).][Dostoevsky FM. The writer's diary of 1876. In: Dostoevsky FM. Collected works in 15 vol. Vol. 13. Leningrad: Nauka publ.; 1989. (In Russian).][Dostoevsky FM. The Idiot. In: Dostoevsky FM. Collected works in 15 vol. Vol. 6. Leningrad: Nauka publ.; 1989. (In Russian).]