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Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 - 1881

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fyodor Dostoevsky is the 2nd most popular writer (up from 6th in 2019), the most popular biography from Russia (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Writer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is most famous for his novel Crime and Punishment.

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Among writers, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 2 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer. After him are William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Alexander II of Russia, Modest Mussorgsky, Billy the Kid, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Jenny von Westphalen, and Henri Vieuxtemps.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1 out of 3,761. After him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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