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Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (–), Russian author, born at Moscow, on the 30th of October , was the second son of a retired military surgeon of a decayed noble family.
He was educated at Moscow and at the military engineering academy at St Petersburg, which he left in with the grade of sub-lieutenant. Next year his father died, and he resigned his commission in order to devote himself to literature—thus commencing a long struggle with ill-health and penury.
Fyodor Dostoevsky portrait by Vasily Perov; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
In addition to the old Russian masters Gogol and Pushkin, Balzac and George Sand supplied him with literary ideals.
Dostoevsky 5 great novels
He knew little of Dickens, but his first story is thoroughly Dickensian in character. The hero is a Russian “Tom Pinch,” who entertains a pathetic, humble adoration for a fair young girl, a solitary waif like himself. Characteristically the Russian story ends in “tender gloom.” The girl marries a middl