The Tsar's secret police had executed a…

The Tsar's secret police had executed a search warrant in the apartment of one of Dostoyevsky's neighbors on January 25, 1881, searching for members of the terror organization Narodnaya Volya ("The People's Will")—who will soon assassinate Tsar Alexander II.

Anna denies that this might have been responsible for Dostoyevksy's pulmonary hemorrhage on the following day, stating that it occurred after Dostoyevsky had searched for a dropped pen holder.

Following another hemorrhage Anna calls for doctors, who give a grim prognosis.

A third hemorrhage follows shortly afterwards.

According to a Russian custom, his body is placed on a table.

Dostoyevsky is interred in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Convent, near his favorite poets Karamsin and Zhukovsky.

It is not exactly known how many visitors attended his funeral.

According to a reporter, more than one hundred thousand mourners were there, while others state a number between forty thousand and fifty thousand.