In the area of the father, Dostoyevsky — one of branches of a family of Rtishchevs which originates from Aslan-Chelebi-murzy, kreshchyonny the Moscow prince Dmitry Donskim. Rtishchevs entered into the immediate environment of the prince Serpukhov and Bohr Ivan Vasilyevich who in 1456, having quarreled with Vasily Tyomnym, went to Pinsk being at that time as a part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There Ivan Vasilyevich became the prince Pinsky. To Stepan Rtishchev he granted villages to Kalechino and Lepovitsa. In 1506 Ivan Vasilyevich, Feodor's son, granted Daniel Rtishchev part of the village of Dostoev in Pinsk повете. From here and "Dostoevsky". Ancestors of the writer on the fatherly line since 1577 acquired a right to use Radvan — the Polish noble coat of arms. Dostoevsky's father many saws also was extremely cruel. "My grandfather Mikhail — reports Lyubov Dostoyevskaya — treated always very strictly the serfs. The more he drank, the growing furious became until they, eventually, didn't kill him".Mother, Maria Fiodorovna Nechaev (1800 — 1837), the daughter of the merchant of the 3rd guild of Feodor Timofeevich Nechaev (1769 — 1832) coming from old of posadsky of the city of Borovsk of the Kaluga