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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century…
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culture · Russian novelist (1821–1881) · translator · poet · novelist · essayist · short story writer · philosopher · biographer · writer · opinion journalist · prose writer · also Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoievski, Fyodor Dostoievski, Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoievski, Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
Born 11 November 1821 · Died 28 January 1881 · Q991
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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2025· 1 entry
Scroll: Sunday book pick: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1848 social media sensation book ‘White Nights’
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2024· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Five Principles of Personal Freedom
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2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Complete Book Reviews
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2021· 1 entry
Kazakhstan celebrated the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth
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1986· 1 entry
The International Dostoevsky Society donated a commemorative plaque in her honour
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1979· 1 entry
And a minor planet discovered in 1981 by Lyudmila Karachkina was named 3453 Dostoevsky
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1961· 1 entry
“An interview with James Baldwin”
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1956· 1 entry
An olive-green postage stamp dedicated to Dostoevsky was released in the Soviet Union, with a print run of 1,000 copies
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1881· 16 entries
Died 1881-01-28.
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“Pragnąc więc prawdzie nadać cechy prawdopodobieństwa, trzeba koniecznie zabarwić ją nieco kłamstwem. Ludzie od początku świata tak właśnie postępują.”
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“Niech mi pan powie, proszę – szepnął mi pewnego razu do ucha Stiepan Trofimowicz – dlaczego wszyscy owi zajadli socjaliści i komuniści są zarazem tak straszliwymi kutwami, jakby wręcz byli opętani żądzą zbicia pieniędzy, przy czym im bardziej ktoś jest zatwardziałym socjalistą, tym silniej przejawia się u niego instynkt posiadacza?…”
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“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”
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“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
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“Najpierw urządźcie tak wszystko, by każdy człowiek był potrzebny, a dopiero potem go płódźcie.”
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“Może jestem nikczemnikiem, ale nie socjalistą!”
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“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”
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“Czyż jednak w największej nawet izolacji wolni jesteśmy od działania praw natury?”
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“Człowiek jest nieszczęśliwy tylko dlatego, że nie wie, iż może być szczęśliwy.”
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“For the people, the tsar is not an external power, not the power of some conqueror [...] but a power of all the people, an all-unifying power the people themselves desired.”
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“Bóg jest niezbędny, a więc dlatego powinien istnieć.”
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But the first highly regarded ones were produced between 1912 and 1920 by Constance Garnett
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“(…) życie ludzkie dzieli się na dwie połowy. Druga upływa wyłącznie pod znakiem przyzwyczajeń, jakie nagromadziły się w pierwszej.”
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“(…) ścinanie głów jest znacznie łatwiejsze niż wyciosywanie zrębów nowej idei!”
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“(…) trzeba wiedzieć, że nic tak nie raduje Rosjanina, jak wszelakie publiczne skandale i rozmaite tłumne rozróby.”
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1876· 1 entry
The Slavic populations of modern-day South-Eastern Serbia outside of the Principality of Serbia (independent since 1868) and of the region of Bulgaria rose against their Ottoman overlords, but the rebellion was put down
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1873· 1 entry
“Bobok: From Somebody's Diary”
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1864· 2 entries
Is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature
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His wife Maria and his brother Mikhail died; Dostoevsky then became the lone parent of his stepson Pasha and the sole supporter of his brother's family
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1861· 1 entry
In the journal Vremya ("Time") – it was the first published novel about Russian prisons
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1859· 1 entry
Was released from military service because of deteriorating health and was granted permission to return to European Russia, first to Tver, where he met his brother for the first time in ten years, and then to Saint Pe
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1858· 1 entry
Dostoevsky had a romance with comic actress Aleksandra Ivanovna Schubert
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1856· 1 entry
Dostoevsky sent a letter through Wrangel to General Eduard Totleben, apologising for his activity in several utopian circles
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1854· 1 entry
“child of unbelief and doubt up to this moment, and I am certain that I shall remain so to the grave”
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1849· 4 entries
Dostoevsky remarked, "As far as I am concerned, nothing was ever more ridiculous than the idea of a republican government in Russia
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The first parts of Netochka Nezvanova, a novel Dostoevsky had been planning since 1846, were published in Notes of the Fatherland, but his banishment ended the project, leaving only what was supposed to be the prologue o
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For belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia
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“As far as I am concerned, nothing was ever more ridiculous than the idea of a republican government in Russia.”
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1848· 2 entries
“A Christmas Tree and a Wedding”
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And set about creating a secret revolutionary society from among its members
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1846· 1 entry
On the recommendation of the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev, he joined the Petrashevsky Circle, founded by Mikhail Petrashevsky, who had proposed social reforms in Russia
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1837· 1 entry
And around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayevsky Engineering Academy
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1833· 1 entry
Dostoevsky's father, who was profoundly religious, sent him to a French boarding school and then to the Chermak boarding school
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1828· 1 entry
When his two sons, Mikhail and Fyodor, were eight and seven, respectively, he was promoted to collegiate assessor, a position which raised his legal status to that of the nobility and enabled him to acquire a small estat
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1821· 2 entries
Born 1821-11-11.
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Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Russian and foreign authors
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1809· 1 entry
The 20-year-old Mikhail Dostoevsky enrolled in Moscow's Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy
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