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 year before he died of emphysema in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky was invited to speak at a festival in Moscow, held to celebrate the unveiling of a statue of Alexander Pushkin-then, as now, considered by ...

As a longterm fan of Dostoevsky (and yes, unusually for a 19th-century literary novelist, he does have a kind of fan club, many of whom are adolescents high on the thrill of first encountering his ...

Few writers can draw on lived experience as dramatic as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Coming of age in St. Petersburg during a turbulent time in his country's history, he survived a death sentence, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Fyodor Dostoevsky was anything but a serene figure. He ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky had to write The Gambler in two months. He had no choice. He had accepted 3,000 roubles from a publisher named Stellovsky to keep his creditors at bay. If he failed to deliver a work ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: /ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfski/, US: /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr ...

Joseph Frank, whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies, alongside Richard Ellmann’s of James Joyce, Walter ...