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Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (–), Russian author, born at Moscow, on the 30th of October , was the second son of a retired military surgeon of a decayed noble family.
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He was educated at Moscow and at the military engineering academy at St Petersburg, which he left in with the grade of sub-lieutenant. Next year his father died, and he resigned his commission in order to devote himself to literature—thus commencing a long struggle with ill-health and penury.
Fyodor Dostoevsky portrait by Vasily Perov; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
In addition to the old Russian masters Gogol and Pushkin, Balzac and George Sand supplied him with literary ideals.
He knew little of Dickens, but his first story is thoroughly Dickensian in character. The hero is a Russian “Tom Pinch,” who entertains a pathetic, humble adoration for a fair young girl, a solitary waif like himself. Characteristically the Russian story ends in “tender gloom.” The girl marries a middl
