Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, born on 11 November [ O.S. 30 October] 1821 in Moscow, was the second child of Dr. Mikhail Dostoevsky and Maria Dostoevskaya (born Nechayeva). He was raised in the family home in the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, which was in a lower class district on the edges of Moscow. [13]

  2. May 21, 2024 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky (born November 11 [October 30, Old Style], 1821, Moscow, Russia—died February 9 [January 28, Old Style], 1881, St. Petersburg) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.

  3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (born Nov. 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia—died Feb. 9, 1881, St. Petersburg), Russian novelist.Dostoyevsky gave up an engineering career early in order to write. In 1849 he was arrested for belonging to a radical discussion group; sentenced to be shot, he was reprieved at the last moment and spent four years at hard labour in Siberia, where he developed epilepsy and experienced ...

  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography. Fyodor Dostoevsky is credited as one of the world’s greatest novelists and literary psychologists. Born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a doctor, Dostoevsky was educated first at home and then at a boarding school. When he was a young boy, his father sent him to the St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering ...

  5. Feb 20, 2020 · Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian novelist. His works of prose deal heavily with philosophical, religious, and psychological themes and are influenced by the complicated social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Russia.

  6. Dec 26, 2023 · Crime and Punishment (1866) The best way to get acquainted with Dostoyevsky is by reading Crime and Punishment. One of the best-known books by the author, as well as a must-read for all Russian kids at school, this one is truly a classic. The story of a poor man that commits a crime in order to survive, but then deals with a greater struggle ...

  7. Nov 28, 2023 · Who Was Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Born Nov. 11, 1821 in Moscow, Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was educated at home until 1833. He studied to be a military engineer, but shortly after graduating decided to ...

  8. The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitals—in the grounds of which he was raised—introduced ...

  9. May 11, 2018 · The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) mixed social, Gothic, and sentimental elements with psychological irrationalism and visionary religion. The form of the novel vastly increased in scope and flexibility as a result of his works. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a staff doctor of a Moscow hospital.

  10. May 21, 2024 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov (born May 2 [April 20, Old Style], 1856, Vetluga, Russian Empire—died Feb. 5, 1919, Sergiyev, Russian S.F.S.R.) was a Russian writer, religious thinker, and journalist, best known for the originality and individuality of his prose works. Rozanov was born into the family of a provincial official ...