Vitaly Sumin Archive

A Portrait of Dostoyevsky
We’ll admit it right off the bat: when we started collecting data for this humongous list of films adapted from Dostoyevsky novels, we never expected it to reach these numbers: we have found a whopping 124 films that were...
Last week, with Vitaly Sumin’s help, I uncovered the missing pages from Hurley’s journal. They were locked up in a safety deposit box that was supposedly purchased by Hurley himself. It’s been over seven years since the screenwriter went...
Good news. Just last week, I received word that our missing screenwriter owns a safety deposit box at a bank in Culver City. Vitaly Sumin contacted me recently with some surprising information. He’s the only other person who is...
NOTE TO NEW READERS: This blog post is part of an ongoing series explaining the mystery of Robert Hurley, which we investigate in our film, Dostoyevsky Reimagined: The Making of the Award-Winning Notes from the New World. Follow the links below...
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   Welcome back to the Dostoyevsky-BTS blog faithful readers and hello to all glorious newcomers! Previously I discussed Dostoyevsky’s influence on British Edwardian writers such as Woolf and Forster. Today I shall endeavor to discuss an American writer by the...

Dead ends

Dead ends. I’ve come across so many during my investigation into the disappearance of Robert Hurley that every time I think of his name I see a sign with the words “DEAD END” written in bold. There have been...