12月,他出席涅克拉索夫的葬禮並發表講話。 他被任命為俄羅斯科學院榮譽院士,並於 1879 年 2 月獲得了該院的榮譽證書。在他的兒子阿遼沙於 5 月 16 日因嚴重癲癇發作去世後,他拒絕了參加在巴黎舉行的國際版權大會的邀請。 。 後來,全家搬到了陀思妥耶夫斯基創作第一部作品的公寓。 大約在這個時候,他被選為聖彼得堡斯拉夫慈善協會的董事會成員。 那年夏天,他被選為國際文學與藝術協會的名譽委員會成員,其成員包括維克多·雨果、伊萬·屠格涅夫、保羅·海澤、阿爾弗雷德·丁尼生、安東尼·特羅洛普、亨利·朗費羅、
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,