Bīografīi︠a︡, pisʹma, i zami︠e︡tki iz zapisnoĭ knizhki F.M. Dostoevskago.

Bīografīi︠a︡, pisʹma, i zami︠e︡tki iz zapisnoĭ knizhki F.M. Dostoevskago.

A Gentle Soul... Before the Industrial Revolution St. Petersburg's visibly wealthy lived side by side with her hidden impoverished, often in the front and the back of the same building! This "illusion" of what the city represented, the pretense that there was no seamy underbelly, came to be grist for the mill of one of Russia's most revered and interesting writers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is still relevant today on account of his understanding of the pathological mind and the complexities of the human soul and character. As Dostoyevsky matured he abandoned the atheism of the West, came to deplore capitalism and to believe that Russian Orthodoxy would become the spiritual leader of the world. His powerful narrative style is evident from his first published work, Poor Folk (1846), to his greatest literary achievement, often considered to be one of the finest novels ever written, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). Published two years after his death, this was the first attempt at a biography of Dostoyevsky.

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