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A Russian thinker and writer whose works dramatize religious, political, moral and psychological issues, was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow and educated at the School of Military Engineering in Saint Petersburg, but abandoned his military career in 1844 to devote him to literature. His first novel, Bednye liudi (Poor People; also known as Poor Folk), appeared in 1846 and won immediate praise from Russia's most prominent literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky. Structured as a series of letters, the work is both a sentimental novel and a penetrating psychological study of its main character. The book that followed, Dvoinik (1846; The Double), is a startling psychological study of a disintegrating personality, but it was much less popular than Poor People. Over the next three years Dostoyevsky published ten undistinguished short novels and stories that barely rise above the literary conventions of the day. In the late 1840s Dostoyevsky became involved with a group of idealistic young men who met in secret to discuss social problems and social reform in Russia. In April 1849 Dostoyevsky and 23 others were arrested, tried, and condemned to death; however, the sentence was changed to imprisonment in Siberia. Dostoyevsky's prison experiences left him with a firsthand knowledge of the criminal mind and of the human potential for evil. His works shared exciting and a vivid treatment of profound ideas.
He died on 9 February 1881 in Saint Petersburg.
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