Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist, born in Moscow on 11 November 1821 and dead on 9 February 1881. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in Russian and world literature, and his work explores the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmosphere of nineteenth-century Russia, engaging with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Adolescent and The Brothers Karamazov, and his novella Notes from Underground is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature. He was arrested in 1849 for belonging to the Petrashevsky Circle, a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. The atlas records him as the author of The Idiot.