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  1. 3 days ago · Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: / ˌ d ɒ s t ɔɪ ˈ ɛ f s k i /, US: / ˌ d ɒ s t ə ˈ j ɛ f s k i, ˌ d ʌ s-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, romanized: Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] ⓘ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 ...

  2. 6 days ago · Fyodor Dostoevsky was born on Nov. 11, 1821, in a world where a czar reigned, Napoleon had recently marched on Moscow, and serfdom was still the norm. Unlike every other notable 19th-century Russian author — as his biographer Joseph Frank points out — Dostoevsky belonged more to the peasant class than the landed gentry.

  3. Jun 14, 2024 · In Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden — reissued this month after its original publication in 1982 — it is Dostoyevsky himself who becomes the object of obsession. Here an unnamed ...

  4. Jun 17, 2024 · Fyodor Dostoevsky, just twenty-eight years old, stands with five other men facing a firing squad, awaiting execution. But then, just as the firing squad prepares to begin, a messenger arrives. He delivers a reprieve from the Tsar - there will be no execution.

  5. 3 days ago · A quintessential Russian writer of the 19th century, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s (1821–1881) works explored the relation of the human psyche with social, spiritual and political forces of his time.

  6. 6 days ago · The Idiot, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian as Idiot in 1868–69. The narrative concerns the unsettling effect of the “primitive” Prince Myshkin on the sophisticated, conservative Yepanchin family and their friends. Myshkin visits the Yepanchins, and his odd manner and lack of.

  7. Jun 10, 2024 · The Possessed, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian in 1872 as Besy. The book, also known in English as The Devils and The Demons, is a reflection of Dostoyevsky’s belief that revolutionists possessed the soul of Russia and that, unless exorcised by a renewed faith in Orthodox.