Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest literary minds, explored the deepest corners of human emotion, morality, and existence. His works delve into the struggles between faith and doubt, sin and ...

A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...

Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...

A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank. Fashions of literary criticism seem to have a half-life of about ten years. Interestingly enough, through all the changes ...

A study in counterfactual scholarship, this “reconstructed memoir” draws heavily upon Dostoevsky’s letters, notebooks, journalism and fiction to recreate an unreal life When a 20-year-old stenographer ...

Burdened by gambling debts so onerous he feared imprisonment (again), suffering debilitating epileptic seizures and reeling from the deaths of his wife and his brother, Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1865 began ...

Samik Bandyopadhyay speaks on Fyodor Dostoevsky at a programme to mark the author’s bicentennial birth anniversary at Gorky Sadan on Friday. To his left is Gorky Sadan events coordinator Gautam Ghosh.

In this blog, we will answer your questions about Russian literature. Feel free to ask anything you want! We know that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy were contemporaries. Did they know each other?