Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881 Russian novelist
The novelist who plumbed the depths of the human soul and conscience.
- Religion
- A devout Russian Orthodox Christian whose faith, tested by doubt, runs through all his major novels.
- Affiliations
- Once part of a radical circle for which he was sentenced to death, then reprieved and sent to Siberia. No secret society.
Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and other novels that probe guilt, freedom, faith, and evil. His years in a Siberian prison camp deepened his vision of suffering and redemption. He shaped modern psychology and existential thought.
Connections
- rival of Leo Tolstoy — The two defined Russian literature from opposing temperaments.
- rival of Leo Tolstoy — The two giants of Russian fiction admired each other but never met.