51 Facts About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the basis for many films.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's parents introduced him to a wide range of literature, including Russian writers Karamzin, Pushkin and Derzhavin; Gothic fiction such as the works from writer Ann Radcliffe; romantic works by Schiller and Goethe; heroic tales by Miguel de Cervantes and Walter Scott; and Homer's epics.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was described as a pale, introverted dreamer and an over-excitable romantic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky moved clumsily and jerkily; his uniform hung awkwardly on him; and his knapsack, shako and rifle all looked like some sort of fetter he had been forced to wear for a time and which lay heavily on him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's father's official cause of death was an apoplectic stroke, but a neighbour, Pavel Khotiaintsev, accused the father's serfs of murder.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky visited Mikhail in Reval and frequently attended concerts, operas, plays and ballets.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was attracted to its logic, its sense of justice and its preoccupation with the destitute and the disadvantaged.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was only permitted to read his New Testament Bible.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was respected by most of the other prisoners, and despised by some because of his supposedly xenophobic statements.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a little over average height and looked at me intensely with his sharp, grey-blue eyes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky travelled with Nikolay Strakhov through Switzerland and several North Italian cities, including Turin, Livorno, and Florence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky recorded his impressions of those trips in Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, in which he criticised capitalism, social modernisation, materialism, Catholicism and Protestantism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky met his second love, Polina Suslova, in Paris and lost nearly all his money gambling in Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky remarked that Dostoevsky was of average height but always tried to carry himself erect.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky visited Ems for the third time and was told that he might live for another 15 years if he moved to a healthier climate.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a frequent guest in several salons in Saint Petersburg and met many famous people, including Countess Sophia Tolstaya, Yakov Polonsky, Sergei Witte, Alexey Suvorin, Anton Rubinstein and Ilya Repin.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was appointed an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from which he received an honorary certificate in February 1879.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was diagnosed with early-stage pulmonary emphysema, which his doctor believed could be successfully managed, but not cured.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's speech was met with thunderous applause, and even his long-time rival Turgenev embraced him.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky makes a sermon like a pastor; it is very deep, sincere, and we understand that he wants to impress the emotions of his listeners.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was interred in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Convent, near his favourite poets, Nikolay Karamzin and Vasily Zhukovsky.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's tombstone is inscribed with lines from the New Testament:.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky described her as educated, interested in literature, and a femme fatale.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky admitted later that he was uncertain about their relationship.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky described it as a mere "gentleman's rule" and believed that "a constitution would simply enslave the people".

Fyodor Dostoyevsky advocated social change instead, for example removal of the feudal system and a weakening of the divisions between the peasantry and the affluent classes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky asserted that the traditional concept of Christianity should be recovered.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky claimed that Catholicism had continued the tradition of Imperial Rome and had thus become anti-Christian and proto-socialist, inasmuch as the Church's interest in political and mundane affairs led it to abandon the idea of Christ.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky found Protestantism self-contradictory and claimed that it would ultimately lose power and spirituality.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky deemed Orthodoxy to be the ideal form of Christianity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky supported private property and business rights, and did not agree with many criticisms of the free market from the socialist utopians of his time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wanted the Muslim Ottoman Empire eliminated and the Christian Byzantine Empire restored, and he hoped for the liberation of Balkan Slavs and their unification with the Russian Empire.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was influenced by the Russian translation of Johannes Hubner's One Hundred and Four Sacred Stories from the Old and New Testaments Selected for Children.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky attended Sunday liturgies from an early age and took part in annual pilgrimages to the St Sergius Trinity Monastery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote more than 700 letters, a dozen of which are lost.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's works explore such themes as suicide, poverty, human manipulation, and morality.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's style was deemed "prolix, repetitious and lacking in polish, balance, restraint and good taste".

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's flowing and easy translations helped popularise Dostoevsky's novels in anglophone countries, and Bakthin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Creative Art provided further understanding of his style.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky thought that just one episode should be dramatised, or an idea should be taken and incorporated into a separate plot.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky sends her to a manor somewhere on a steppe, while Makar alleviates his misery and pain with alcohol.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky describes himself as vicious, squalid and ugly; the chief focuses of his polemic are the "modern human" and his vision of the world, which he attacks severely and cynically, and towards which he develops aggression and vengefulness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky tells of meeting old school friends, who are in secure positions and treat him with condescension.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's aggression turns inward on to himself and he tries to humiliate himself further.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's alienated existence from the mainstream influenced modernist literature.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky warns the readers against a terrible revelation in the future, referring to the Donation of Pepin around 750 and the Spanish Inquisition in the 16th century, which in his view corrupted true Christianity.