Fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky biography timeline
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Dostoevsky Timeline
(1821) – Born in Moscow on October 30 (November 11 according to the Gregorian Calendar). Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is the 2nd of 7 children to Mikhail Andreyevich, head physician at Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, and Mariya Fyodorovna, daughter of a merchant family.
(1831) – begins boarding school in Moscow with his older brother Mikhail.
(1834) – Chermak Private High School in Moscow.
(1837) – Mother dies at age 37 and Fyodor & Mikhail are sent to a preparatory school in St. Petersburg
(1838) – admitted to St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineers as an army cadet. Described as a pensive, solitary student, prone to fits of depression. Reads all of Shakespeare and Pascal, most of Balzac, Goethe’s Faust and shorter poems, most of Victor Hugo’s novels, all (in both German and Russian)
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Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian novelist. His works of prose deal heavily with philosophical, religious, and psychological themes and are influenced by the complicated social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Russia.
Fast Facts: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Full Name: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Known For: Russian essayist and novelist
- Born: November 11, 1821 in Moscow, Russia
- Parents: Dr. Mikhail Andreevich and Maria (née Nechayeva) Dostoevsky
- Died: February 9, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Education: Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute
- Selected Works:Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–1869), Demons (1871–1872), The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
- Spouses: Maria Dmitriyevna Isaeva (m. 1857–1864), Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina (m. 1867–1881)
- Children: Sonya Fyodorovna Dostoevsky (1868–1868), Lyubov Fyodorovna
- Born in Moscow to parents Mikhail and Maria Dostoevsky, the second child of 7 brothers and sisters.
- He grew up on the property of the Mariiknsky Hospital, on elf the worse parts in Moscow, where his father worked. He grew up amid an orphanage, insane asylum, and a cemetery for criminals. He grew up with compassion for the poor and tormented. When författare was younger, liked to wonder out to the lawn where mental patients would sit, and he would sit and listen to their stories.
- He fryst vatten buried in the Tikhvin Cemetary at Aleksander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg
- His last words were a quote from scripture, "But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteo
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