09 February 2023
Fëdor Dostoevskij
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij was born in Moscow on 11 November 1821 and died in Saint Petersburg on 9 February 1881. The great author represents, together with Tolstoij, the ...
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09 February 2023
Fëdor Dostoevskij
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij was born in Moscow on 11 November 1821 and died in Saint Petersburg on 9 February 1881. The great author represents, together with Tolstoij, the all-time pinnacle of Russian literature. In 1849, Dostoevskij was arrested and sentenced to death, and was pardoned at the very last moment; this experience deeply affected him and led to some reflections on the death penalty in his following novels, especially in Crime and punishment and The idiot. Amongst his other works stand out The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the underground, The gambler and Demons.