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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky spent most of his early childhood in the Moscow Mariinsky Hospital, where he was born in 1821. The first fruits of Fyodor Mikhailovich's literary activity, the dramas Boris Godunov and Maria Stewart, were written by him in the early forties, but never published. Only in 1846 his novel “Poor People” was first published, which was admired by the great critic of the time Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky.
In 1848 his work “White Nights” was published, and in December 1849
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky spent most of his early childhood in the Moscow Mariinsky Hospital, where he was born in 1821.
The first fruits of Fyodor Mikhailovich's literary activity, the dramas Boris Godunov and Maria Stewart, were written by him in the early forties, but never published. Only in 1846 his novel “Poor People” was first published, which was admired by the great critic of the time Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky.
In 1848 his work “White Nights” was published, and in December 1849 Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death in the “Petrashevsky case”, but at the last moment the sentence was canceled and sent to hard labor in the Omsk prison, where he spent four years. His feelings before the execution, he later reflected in the novel “The Idiot”.
Dostoevsky wrote his famous novel “Crime and Punishment” in 1866, and in 1886 the work was translated and published in the United States.
In the last years of his life, Fyodor Mikhailovich wrote “Demons”, “Teenage”, “Meek” and “The Brothers Karamazov”.