Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist. Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes from Underground. Survivor of a mock execution and four years in a Siberian penal colony.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ask Fyodor Dostoevsky about faith, doubt, and Crime and Punishment in the Russian soul. Sit in a Petersburg garret with the survivor of a mock execution.
Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist. Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes from Underground. Survivor of a mock execution and four years in a Siberian penal colony.
- Born
- 1821
- Died
- 1881
- Birthplace
- Moscow
- Nationality
- Russia
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- Writers & Poets
- Novelists