Notes from the House of the Dead

The novella "Notes from the House of the Dead" is based on the writer's memories of the years spent in the Omsk prison. According to critics, it is with this work that the true Dostoevsky begins, with his psychology and depth of characters. In "Notes from the House of the Dead," a world opens up before the reader where violence against the human personality takes on a familiar, everyday character. It is a story that tells of the fates of the outcasts whom Dostoevsky encountered during hard labor. The guilty and the innocent, murderers and smugglers, daring thieves and intelligent counterfeiters, nobles and peasants… Each inhabitant of the prison "House of the Dead," created by the pen of Dostoevsky, remains forever in memory.