Books By Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Lonny Harrison - Author

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Born in Moscow in 1821, he attended the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute and began his career as an engineer, but resigned after the success of his first novel, Poor Folk. He went on to write short stories and serialized novels throughout the 1840s, but in 1849 was arrested on the orders of Tsar Nicholas I due to his association with utopian Socialists. After narrowly escaping execution, he served four years with hard labor in a Siberian prison camp, and the following six years in compulsory military service. Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment in 1866 with the help of stenographer Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, whom he married soon afterwards; the couple had four children together, two of whom died young. After Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky went on to write two more of his most well-received novels, The Idiot and Demons. His marriage to Anna finally helped him resolve his longtime gambling addiction, but his heal