In the 1860s, the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, spent a good deal of time in Germany, as many Russians did during that period. A compulsive gambler, he lost everything in the opulent spa ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The Russian literary giant was a compulsive gambler who repeatedly borrowed money only to bet and lose ...

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devising plans became an end in itself.footnote 1 As Viktor Shklovskii put it in his Notes on Dostoevsky, ‘Fyodor Mikhailovich loved to sketch out plans, and loved even more to develop, rethink and ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, considered one of the heavyweights of world literature, has got a radio adaptation. The classic Russian novel published in 1866, which goes deep into ...