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  Fyodor Dostoevsky - Biography and Works
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel.
Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, as the second son of a former army doctor.
The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in Siberia.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dostoevsky was the second of seven children born to Mikhail and Maria Dostoevsky.
Dostoevsky was arrested and imprisoned on April 23, 1849 for engaging in revolutionary activity against Tsar Nikolai I.
Dostoevsky's novels are compressed in time (many cover only a few days) and this enables the author to get rid of one of the dominant traits of realist prose, the corrosion of human life in the process of the time flux — his characters primarily embody spiritual values, and these are, by definition, timeless.
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 Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities. Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian artists
Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, as the second son of a former army doctor.
Fyodor Dostoevsky is a recognized genius of psychological prose and though his own life was desperate and hard, he managed to win all-world recognition for centuries, and his works will be read and admired for ages and ages.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, as the second son of a staff doctor at the Hospital for the Poor - later Dostoevsky's father acquired an estate and serfs.
Dostoevsky's father Mikhail Andreevich died in 1839, probably of apoplexy, but there was strong rumors that he was murdered by his own serfs in a quarrel.
Dostoevsky defended the work in an open letter, writing that he knew for certain that even though the novel should be a failure, there would be poetry in it, and the two most important characters would be portrayed truthfully and even artistically.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography and Literary Works
Dostoevsky defended the work in an open letter and wrote that he knew for certain that even though the novel should be a failure, there would be poetry in it and the two most important characters would be portrayed truthfully and even artistically.
Dostoevsky married in 1867 Anna Snitkin, his 22-years old stenographer, who seems to have understood her husband's manias and rages.
Dostoevsky final novel culminated his lifelong obsession with patricide - the assumed murder of his father had left deep marks on the author's psyche in childhood.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Books and Biography
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow, as the second son of a staff doctor at the Hospital for the Poor - later he acquired an estate and serfs.
Dostoevsky defended the work in an open letter, writing that he knew for certain that even though the novel should be a failure, there would be poetry in it, and the two most important characters would be portrayed truthfully and even artistically.
Dostoevsky married in 1867 Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, his 22-years old stenographer, who seems to have understood her husband's manias and rages.
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 DOSTOEVSKY RESEARCH STATION: Table of Contents
You may well be thinking, "not another Dostoevsky site!", which is fair enough considering that there are 30+ sites out there already dedicated exclusively to the famous Russian writer (we have links to them all, incidentally).
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is born in Moscow on October 30 in Hospital for the poor, the second of seven children.
Anderson writes in the beginning that Dostoevsky conjectured about life's possibilities more broadly than most of his contemporaries and challenged their assumptions that psychological motivations are determined by biographical and social conditions.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dostoyevsky) | Biography | Author of Crime and Punishment
This passage was written immediately after Dostoevsky underwent the traumatic experience that Tsar Nicholas I ordered for several prisoners condemned to death for involvement in revolutionary activities--a mock execution in Semyonovsky Square, a staged performance so terrifyingly real that it induced insanity within one of the author's fellow prisoners.
Something of a literary figure at the age of twenty-five, Dostoevsky began attending the discussion group that would result in his imprisonment, and the eventual mock execution which would prompt him to write the aforementioned letter to his brother.
During this period, Dostoevsky's life was in upheaval, as he lost both his first wife and his brother.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
The Russian novelist and essayist, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, is considered a forerunner of existentialist thought.
Man, for Dostoevsky, is limited by society, economic conditions, laws, history, the church, and especially by God.
According to Dostoevsky he is right in wanting to be free, for freedom is the essential attribute of his identity.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born October 30, 1821, in Moscow's Hospital for the Poor.
Dostoevsky's sentence of eight years' hard labor in a Siberian prison was reduced to four, followed by another four years of compulsory military service.
Their newfound financial stability enabled the Dostoevskys to purchase the house they had been renting in 1876, and between 1877 and 1880, Dostoevsky worked on "The Brothers Karamazov," regarded by many as the apex of his career.
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On October 30, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow to Mikhail Andreyevich, a surgeon, and Maria Fyodorovna.
Dostoevsky's father was a doctor on the staff of Moscow's Hospital of St. Mary.
Dostoevsky pressed with debts and with a publishing contract requiring a book by a certain date, hired a twenty-year old young woman named Anna Grigorievna to be his stenographer, In one month he dictated the whole of the novel The Gambler.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky the Thinker: A Philosophical Study by James P. Scanlan (Cornell University Press) For all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers.
Dostoevsky's critique of the superficiality of his opponents' conception of human evil stemmed not from a conviction that man is "fundamentally evil" but from what he considered their failure to see that the source of evil is man's inherent egoism.
Dostoevsky was in all things a moralist who often, as in his famous Pushkin speech, preached a universalistic gospel of mutual love and respect.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1849, Dostoevsky and the other members of the group were arrested, and he was sentenced to 4 years of penal servitude and 4 years in the ranks as a private in the army.
Dostoevsky, however, was led to believe that he was to be executed, and it was only on the execution ground itself that the true sentence was revealed.
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky followed that with Crime and Punishment (1866), the account of a college student who murders his landlady, The Idiot (1868), the tale of a Christ-like figure named Prince Myshkin, and The Possessed (1871), an exploration of philosophical nihilism.
In 1867, Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkin, his 22-year old stenographer, who apparently was comfortable with her husband’s various moods and manias.
Dostoevsky once said, "You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky (biography, history, quotes)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel.
In 1839 Dostoevsky's father died probably of apoplexy but there were strong rumors that he was murdered by his own serfs.
The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in Siberia.
www.classical-literature.com /a/fyodor-dostoevsky.html   (424 words)

  
 Existential Primer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky himself was a Christian, to be sure, and for that matter also a rabid anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, and anti-Western Russian nationalist.
While in front of the firing squad, Dostoevsky and his companions are reprieved, as the Tsar intended as a form of emotional torture.
Dostoevsky, while not an existentialist, does represent the roots of the philosophical movement with which he is often associated.
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 Books at Book Clubs | Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was a dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote.
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s).
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on October 30 in an Hospital for the poor.
One of Dostoevsky's absolute masterpieces, The Brothers Karamazov, is published three years later, before Fyodor delivers his famous speech on Pushkin at the Pushkin festivities in Moscow, in 1880, drawing enormous crowds and stormy emotional responses.
On January 28,1881 Dostoevsky dies from a lung hemorrage in St. Petersburg at the age of fifty-nine.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
To Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov embodied the quintessence of Russian character, in all its exaltation, compassion and profligacy.
The son of a penurious army surgeon, Dostoevsky was educated as a military engineer.
His death was the occasion for national mourning, and in the years that followed he became almost a legendary hero to the Russian masses as the poet of their sufferings and aspirations.
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M.A. Dostoevsky bought a small estate in the district of Kashir, province of Tula, which consisted of two small villages -–Darovoye and Chermashnya (bought in 1832).
Fyodor Dostoevsky promoted to field ensign-engineer and transfered to the lower officer’s class.
Marriage of Dostoevsky and A.G. Snitkina in the Trinity-Izmailovsky Cathedral
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 Malaspina Great Books - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
Dostoevsky's narrative is directed as a specific critique of Russian manifestations of purely rational political theories current in the 1860's in his homeland.
Dostoevsky's parable focuses on a particular brand of 19th century Russian ideology, as it begins to crystallize in the mind of a young idealist.
Dostoevsky's procedure was to take such an ideological theory and show how - when pushed to extremes - it would generate distasteful contradictions.
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 LitKicks: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Young Fyodor (the name is the Russian equivalent of "Theodore") was brought up to be a religious and hard-working young man, and began training to be a military engineer at a school in St. Petersburg.
Dostoevsky's early literary career foundered, and he became increasingly involved in the anti-Tsarist circles that were trying to modernize feudal Russian society and overthrow the government.
Former rivals like Ivan Turgenev were thriving, and Dostoevsky registered his disgust with the complacent society that surrounded him with "Notes From Underground", the first of a series of great novels that he would now write.
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 Classic Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1839, Fyodor’s father died, presumably by the hands of his own serfs, who poured vodka down his throat until he could no longer breathe.
Fyodor remained close to at least one of his siblings, his beloved brother Mikhail.
Fyodor’s new sentence demanded that he complete eight years of hard labor in a prison at Omsk, Siberia.
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
His letters indicate that what was cut out was a part of the text in which Dostoevsky demonstrated the need for Christ and religion – this is the one element missing from the Underground Man, and this is what could have given him meaning and peace.
Dostoevsky has been instrumental in ‘the formation of modern consciousness’.
Nikolay Berdyaev, Russian philosopher exiled after Revolution in 1917 said in 1923: “So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.”
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 Amazon.ca: Demons: Books: Fyodor Dostoevsky   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dostoevsky's primary inspiration for this novel came from an absolutely horrid novel by one Nikolai Cherneshevsky called "Chto Eto", or "What is to be Done?" An early bit of Russian utopianism, it was a precursor of the vicious theories Lenin/Stalin would deploy to "drag" Russia into the 20th century (indeed it was Lenin's favorite novel).
Dostoevsky is a master of this sort of writing and his storytelling (and plotting) talent is what makes his "novels of ideas" so much fun to read.
Dostoevsky's contempt for Jews is unfortunate, and some of his "messages" are less agreeable & consistent than they might seem while you're immersed in his novels.
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 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- Sennaya Ploschad
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born on October 30, 1821 in Moscow.
In 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested for work with French Utopian Socialists and he received 4 years in prison in Omsk.
Dostoevsky was arrested here for attending the meeting of Petrashevsky circle.
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