High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova (Russian: Аполлинария Прокофьевна Суслова; 1839–1918), commonly known as Polina Suslova, was a Russian short story writer, who is perhaps best known as a mistress of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wife of Vasily Rozanov and a sister of Russia`s first female physician Nadezhda Suslova. She is considered to be the prototype of several female characters in Dostoyevsky`s novels, such as Polina in The Gambler, Nastasya Filipovna in The Idiot, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment, Lizaveta Nikolaevna in The Possessed, and both Katerina and Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov. Suslova has often been portrayed as a femme fatale. Fyodor Dostoyevsky called Suslova one of the most remarkable women of his time.