Fyodor Dostoevsky
November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881
Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Biography
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a radical discussion circle, he faced a mock execution and then spent four years in a Siberian labour camp and further years as a soldier.
His major novels, Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), explore faith, free will, guilt and the moral crises of modern society. They made him one of the most influential writers in world literature, important to existentialism and modern psychology.
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Employment
- Jan 1, 1873 – Mar 1, 1874 Grazhdanin Published A Writer's Diary in Meshchersky's magazine The Citizen for a salary
Education
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