In modern cultural processes, the problems of the essence of the mentality of the Russian people in Dostoevsky’s artistic works are acquiring critical importance. The article provides a detailed analysis of the images of the Russian people and pictures of their life created by F. M. Dostoevsky in Notes from a Dead House, and reveals the origin of the ideas of Pochvennichestvo in Dostoevsky’s work of the early 1860s.
