Fyodor Dostoevsky is a master of 19th-century psychological prose, recognized worldwide. His works have been translated into more than 170 languages.
'Crime and Punishment' is the supreme example of the crime novel. Dostoevsky raised questions that remain unresolved to this day. Who should a person be: a 'trembling creature,' as Raskolnikov says, or a 'Napoleon'? Written in 1866, the work remains the most widely read book in the world and is included in most school literature curricula.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian writer, thinker, philosopher, and publicist. Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences from 1877. A classic of world literature and, according to UNESCO, one of the most widely read writers in the world.
He was born into the family of the chief physician of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor. His father, Mikhail Andreevich, was a nobleman; his mother, Maria Fyodorovna, came from an old Moscow merchant family. He received an excellent education at the private boarding school of L. Tsermak, one of the best in Moscow.…
