Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His
debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In
1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically
subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a
convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The
House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya
(Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his
contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and
developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his
first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from
Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The
major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868),
Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in
1881.
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