In this essay, we will attempt to reveal possible motives of the Russian writer's formation of his anti-French obsession and sickly hostility towards the French or the gallicized woman as an image of the adulterous woman in the biblical sense or a camellia flower in the symbolic sense that this word took in the Russian literature of the XIXth century. She represents, in the writer's imagination, one of the facets of bourgeois incarnation of Western modernity as well as the figure of Evil as opposed to the ideal or idealized image of Russian saintity, figure of Good, embodied by a Russian female model of Pushkin type, such as Tatiana in the novel Eugene Onegin, on whom Dostoevsky speaks at length in his famous Speech on Pushkin at the end of his life.
