Author · 1821 to 1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist who looked deep into guilt, faith and the human mind.
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Life milestones
An engineer first
He studied at a military engineering academy.
Faced death
He wrote about it later in The Idiot.
Gambler
He struggled with a gambling habit.
Dictated novels
His wife Anna took down his words.
Timeline
- 1821
Born in Moscow.
- 1849
Arrested; reprieved at the last moment.
- 1866
Crime and Punishment.
- 1869
The Idiot.
- 1880
The Brothers Karamazov.
- 1881
Dies in Saint Petersburg.
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Image credits
- Vasily Perov - Портрет Ф.М.Достоевского - Google Art Project, Vasily Perov, Public domain