VELIKY NOVGOROD, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Dostoyevsky and Contemporaneity 20th international readings are opening in Staraya Russa (the Novgorod region, Russia's northwest) on Saturday to pay tribute to the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The writer's great grandson Dmitry Dostoyevsky will mark his 60th birth anniversary during the readings.

The program of the event includes a roundtable on the 500th anniversary of the Dostoyevsky dynasty marked in 2006.

A year ago Dmitry Dostoyevsky, a permanent participant of the readings, made public the new information about his repressed relatives provided by the Russian Federal Security Service. He spoke about the details of the arrests of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's grandson and nephew in 1934 and 1931.

The program also includes a tour of the sites described in Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov and other excursions.

On May 24, the guests will traditionally attend the Day of Slavonic Alphabet and Culture in Veliky Novgorod.

About 100 experts in Dostoyevsky studies from Russian university centers, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Brazil, Italy, France and Japan will participate in the event. They will discuss reports on Dostoyevsky's books, new archive discoveries and biographic materials.

The readings will close on May 25.