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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, Russia, on October 30, 1821. Son of Mikhail Dostoevsky and Maria Fyodorovna Nietcháieva. He was orphaned as a mother on February 27, 1837. That same year he was sent to Petersburg for the School of Military Engineering. In 1839, his father, who was a doctor, was murdered by the settlers of the farm where he lived. The fact provoked great upheavals in the life of Dostoevsky, who had the first attacks of epilepsy when it knew of the death of the father. His earliest letters show him to be a young man of passion and energy, as well as somewhat mentally unstable.

When Dostoyevsky finished school, he turned from the career he was trained and devoted himself to writing. In 1944, he resigned from public office and began writing his first novel, "Poor People," a novel that describes the mediocre environment in which he lived, published in 1846 in the "Petersburg Almanac".

In 1847 he published the second edition of "Poor People" and in 1948 he published "O Duplo", a novel that did not succeed. Doubts arise over his own capacity as a writer. The Double, however, has come to be known his best early work, and in many ways it was ahead of its time.

In 1847 he began to attend the socialist group of the revolutionary Pietrashevsky. He is considered subversive and is arrested. After eight months in prison, Dostoevsky was "sentenced" to death. In reality, though, this sentence was only a joke. At one point, however, Dostoevsky believed he had only moments to live, and he never forgot the feelings of that experience. He was sentenced to four years in prison and four years of forced service in the army in Siberia, Russia.

In November of 1859, returns to the city of Petersburg. The memories of life in prison are described in the books Memories of the House of the Dead (1861) and Memories of the Underground (1864).

In 1867, he published the novel "Crime and Punishment", which tells the story of the young Raskolnikov who commits a crime and begins to live from guilt for the act committed. The work is a great existential reflection on how the human being relates to the divine questions. "The Brothers Karamazov" is his last work, considered by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud one of the greatest masterpieces of Western literature. The novel is a true web of characters and the work is permeated by indirect discourse, with free reflections of the author himself on the characters.

Dostoevsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 28, 1881.