Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky , ; human given in a troubled political, social, & spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, as alive as engage with a classification of philosophical and religious themes. His near acclaimed novels put Crime and Punishment 1866, The Idiot 1869, Demons 1872, and The Brothers Karamazov 1880. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first working of existentialist literature. many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as numerous of his working are considered highly influential masterpieces.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was shown to literature at an early age through A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the almost widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.

Dostoevsky was influenced by a wide race of philosophers and authors including Pushkin, Gogol, Augustine, Shakespeare, Scott, Dickens, Balzac, Lermontov, Hugo, Poe, Plato, Cervantes, Herzen, Kant, Belinsky, Byron, Hegel, Schiller, Solovyov, Bakunin, Sand, Hoffmann, and Mickiewicz.

Dostoevsky's body of work consists of 12 novels, four novellas, 16 short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such(a) as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books stay on to been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the basis for many films.

Ancestry

Dostoevsky's paternal ancestors were component of a noble family of Russian Orthodox Christians. The family traced its roots back to Danilo Irtishch, who was granted lands in the Pinsk region for centuries part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now in modern-day Belarus in 1509 for his services under a local prince, his progeny then taking the stay on to "Dostoevsky" based on a village there called Dostoïevo derived from Old Polish dostojnik – dignitary.

Dostoevsky's immediate ancestors on his mother's side were merchants; the male line on his father's side were priests.

In 1809, the 20-year-old Mikhail Dostoevsky enrolled in Moscow's Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy. From there he was assigned to a Moscow hospital, where he served as military doctor, and in 1818 he was appointed a senior physician. In 1819 he married Maria Nechayeva. The coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. year, he took up a post at the Mariinsky Hospital for the poor. In 1828, when his two sons, Mikhail and Fyodor, were eight and seven respectively, he was promoted to collegiate assessor, a position which raised his legal status to that of the nobility and enabled him to acquire a small estate in Darovoye, a town about 150 km 100 miles from Moscow, where the family usually spent the summers. Dostoevsky's parents subsequently had six more children: Varvara 1822–1892, Andrei 1825–1897, Lyubov born and died 1829, Vera 1829–1896, Nikolai 1831–1883 and Aleksandra 1835–1889.