Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky was a 19th-century Russian novelist and philosopher renowned for his psychologically profound and existentially charged works such as "Crime and Punishment," "The Brothers Karamazov," and "Notes from Underground."


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instanceOf human
journalist
novelist
philosopher
playwright
short story writer
awardReceived Pushkin Prize
burialPlace Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Tikhvin Cemetery
causeOfDeath pulmonary hemorrhage
convictedOf political crimes
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
dateOfBirth 1821-11-11
dateOfDeath 1881-02-09
educatedAt Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Dostoevsky
father Mikhail Dostoevsky
fieldOfWork journalism
literature
philosophy
fullName Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
gender male
genre existentialist literature
philosophical fiction
psychological fiction
givenName Fyodor
hasHealthIssue epilepsy
gambling addiction
influenced Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hermann Hesse
James Joyce
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sigmund Freud
Virginia Woolf
William Faulkner
influencedBy Alexander Pushkin
Blaise Pascal
Honoré de Balzac
Nikolai Gogol
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
militaryRank second lieutenant
mother Maria Dostoevskaya
movement Christian existentialism
Russian realism
existentialism
psychological realism
nativeName Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
notableIdea Christian existentialism
exploration of free will
moral ambiguity
problem of evil
psychological depth of characters
notableWork Crime and Punishment
Demons
Notes from Underground
Poor Folk
The Brothers Karamazov
The Devils
The Double
The Eternal Husband
The Gambler
The House of the Dead
The Idiot
The Possessed
occupation journalist
novelist
philosopher
playwright
short story writer
writer
participantIn Petrashevsky Circle
Siberian penal servitude
mock execution of 1849
placeOfBirth Moscow
Russian Empire
placeOfDeath Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg
religion Russian Orthodox Church
residence Saint Petersburg
sibling Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother)
spouse Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya
Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva
workPeriod 1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s


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