Which literary collection first published Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Poor Folk?

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Poor Folk was first published in the Petersburg Collection.

The novel appeared in 1846 in an anthology edited by Nikolay Nekrasov and Valerian Maykov. Its publication immediately attracted attention in Saint Petersburg literary circles, and the influential critic Vissarion Belinsky praised the young author.

Poor Folk is an epistolary novel, told through correspondence between the impoverished clerk Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova. Its focus on poverty, dignity, and emotional vulnerability connected it with the “natural school” of Russian literature.

The work is sometimes associated with later journals that published Dostoevsky, especially The Russian Messenger. Those publications were important for his later novels, but they were not the original venue for Poor Folk. The first novel appeared in the Petersburg Collection in 1846.