12月，他出席涅克拉索夫的葬礼并发表讲话。 他被任命为俄罗斯科学院荣誉院士，并于 1879 年 2 月获得了该院的荣誉证书。在他的儿子阿辽沙于 5 月 16 日因严重癫痫发作去世后，他拒绝了参加在巴黎举行的国际版权大会的邀请。 。 后来，全家搬到了陀思妥耶夫斯基创作第一部作品的公寓。 大约在这个时候，他被选为圣彼得堡斯拉夫慈善协会的董事会成员。 那年夏天，他被选为国际文学与艺术协会的名誉委员会成员，其成员包括维克多·雨果、伊万·屠格涅夫、保罗·海泽、阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生、安东尼·特罗洛普、亨利·朗费罗、
In December he attended Nekrasov's funeral and gave a speech. He was appointed an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from which he received an honorary certificate in February 1879. He declined an invitation to an international congress on copyright in Paris after his son Alyosha had a severe epileptic seizure and died on 16 May. The family later moved to the apartment where Dostoevsky had written his first works. Around this time, he was elected to the board of directors of the Slavic Benevolent Society in Saint Petersburg. That summer, he was elected to the honorary committee of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, whose members included Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Paul Heyse, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Henry Longfellow,
