Leoš Janáček's interpretation and misinterpretation of Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead by Danuta Hudecová, Petr Kalina

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Deciphering Flavio Pereira’s Reading of Dostoevsky after the The House of the Dead by Nadia Nedialkova, Bojin Nedialkov, Flávio Santos Pereira

“… This article provides a “dechiffrage” of the form, style, compositional techniques, and referential musical meanings employed by the Brazilian composer and pedagogue Flavio Santos Pereira in the composition of a seven-part suite entitled Reading of Dostoevsky, written in 2016 and based on the book The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This chamber work is a premonitory work about the present pandemic time, which tests not only the human existential instincts and fears but also the spiritual, philosophical, and moral values upon which a mature and complete personality is built. …”
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THE CAUCASIAN MOTIF IN FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY’S “HOUSE OF THE DEAD”: IN THE LIGHT OF THE POLEMIC WITH LERMONTOV by Xuyang Mi

“…This article is devoted to the Caucasian motif in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “House of the Dead”. This analysis notes its intertextual connection with Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time” and clarifies the multifaceted tasks of the hidden polemic with him: overcoming Rousseauian antithesis of “nature - civilization” and the cult of romantic passionate love. …”
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Why did Act 1 of From the House of the Dead end with the Skuratov theme? by John Tyrrell

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The House of the Dead. The San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri by Gilda Giancipoli

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Small Houses of the Dead: A Model of Collective Funerary Activity in the Chalcolithic Tombs of Southwestern Iberia. La Orden-Seminario Site (Huelva, Spain) by Linares-Catela José Antonio, Vera-Rodríguez Juan Carlos

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Genre in Janáček’s operas by John Tyrrell

“…Among the mature operas, Jenůfa, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Affair and From the House of the Dead lack tragic inevitability and exhibit other genre characteristics, such as those of tragicomedy (in The Vixen and Makropulos).…”
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Chalámov e Dostoiévski: uma perspectiva sobre Recordações da Casa dos Mortos by Andrea Zeppini Menezes da Silva

“…About this period, he wrote Memoirs from the House of the Dead. Shalamov spent seventeen years in Stalinist labor camps, after that,wroteKolyma Tales, his main work.…”
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The Function of Introductions in Dostoevsky’s Work (About L. Bagby’s Book) by Nikolay N. Podosokorsky

“…Bagby identifies ten Dostoevsky’s texts (The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants, Notes from the House of the Dead, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Notes from the Underground, “Bobok”, The Devils, “The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree”, “The Peasant Marey”, “A Gentle Creature”, and The Brothers Karamazov) and attempts to analyze the introductions using Gérard Genette’s typology. …”
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Le citazioni di Dostoevskij negli studi danteschi del simbolismo russo: il caso di Dmitrij Merežkovskij by Kristina Landa

“…It seems significant that Merežkovsky does not focus on the traditional comparison between Commedia and Memoirs from a House of the Dead, but turns to other works, images and/or concepts. …”
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„Dom zmarłych” z Chodlika, gm. Karczmiska, woj. lubelskie. Przyczynek do studiów nad grobami typu Alt Käbelich by Łukasz Miechowicz, Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka, Łukasz Maurycy Stanaszek, Jakub Stępnik

“…The Chodlik discovery is a ontribution to the research into the occurrence of the Alt Käbelich type of graves and the concept of the so-called “house of the dead” in the Western Slavic Dominion…”
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“Nature Made Us This Way…”: Crime without Punishment? (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Bunin). Article 2: “Are There Such Signs at Birth?” by Gennady Yu. Karpenko

“…Dostoevsky, aiming to show the transformative effect of the “law of Christ” on the individual, nevertheless does not completely debunk the marginal anthropic reality, leaving it “free” in public spaces, thereby potentially “allowing” it to manifest, and it can find its practical and historical confirmation in criminals “by nature” (as in The House of the Dead). Bunin, without doubt or reservations, introduces a “dangerous reality” in the story — a “born criminal”, and endows him with characteristic signs, “stigmata” that are recognizable in the light of criminal anthropology. …”
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The Bell Beaker multiple burial pit of La Atalayuela (La Rioja, Spain): stable isotope insights into diet, identity and mortuary practices in Chalcolithic Iberia by Fernández-Crespo, T, Ordoño, J, Barandiarán, I, Teresa Andrés, M, Schulting, R

“…Thus, there is a significant differentiation in δ13C values between burial context base (the earliest funerary use identified, interpreted as a ‘house of the dead’) and the following context a2 (interpreted as a mass grave), supporting the existence of potentially distinct funerary uses. …”

John Tyrrell – výjimečný janáčkovský životopisec a editor by Jiří Zahrádka

“…Editiorial work was also crucial: together with the conductor Charles Mackerras, they prepared the editions of operas Jenůfa (Brno version of 1908) and From the House of the Dead. John Tyrrell is certainly one of the leading musicologists in history. …”
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Leoš Janáček and the Avant-garde of the Twenties by Miloš Štědroň

“…. . . his every note has been steeped in blood . . .« The author draws attention to the apparent ideological similarity of »Wozzeck« and of Janáček's last opera »From the House of the Dead«. The paper brings some additional evidence of Janáček's connections with the avant-garde. …”
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Investigation of the Bronze Age sites in the estuarine trans-Kama river area by Chizhevsky Andrey A., Lyganov Anton V.

“…The under-barrow structures resemble “long barrows” of the late stage of the Maklasheevka culture and the Early Iron Age one-chamber “houses of the dead” discovered in the Volga-Kama region.…”
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