 The family later moved to the apartment where Dostoevsky had written his first works.Around this time, he was elected to the board of directors of the Slavic Benevolent Society in Saint Petersburg.That summer, he was elected to the honorary committee of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, whose members included Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Paul Heyse, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Henry Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Leo Tolstoy.