204 years ago today, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. Numerous literary critics consider him the greatest novelist in all world history. Most of his major works are considered masterpieces, and are given out to students in literature classes all around the world. Dostoevsky’s books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and one large poll conducted via television viewers ranked Dostoevsky as the ninth greatest Russian to ever live. READ one of his most famous passages… (1881)

After his mother died, Dostoevsky attended the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk , which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg’s literary c

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