Note 64 — Chapter 29 OUR FRIENDS The Moscow Circle—Table Talk—The Westerners (Botkin, Ryedkin, Kryukov, and Yevgeny Korsh)—On the Grave of a Friend

Readers of The Possessed may be interested to know that Dostoevsky is supposed (I cannot say whether on sufficient evidence) to have modelled the character of Stepan Trofimovitch in the earlier chapters of that novel on Granovsky.—(Translator’s Note.)