Contemporaries
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literature · philosophy
Show on the timeline- Period of activity shown
- 1846–1881
A novelist whose fiction examined moral choice, faith, freedom and social conflict. After his debut with Poor Folk, he was arrested in the Petrashevsky affair and endured penal servitude and military service in Siberia. Returning to literary life, he published journals with his brother Mikhail. His mature novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov, works of enduring international influence.
- Lifetime
- 1821–1881
- Publications
- Poor Folk (1846); The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
- Period shown
- Literary career from 1846; includes the forced interruption after his arrest in 1849.