Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: , US: ; Russian: , tr. Fydor Mikhylovich Dostoyvskiy, IPA: [fdr mxajlvd dstjefskj] (listen); 11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century …