Notes from the House of the Dead

The story "Notes from the House of the Dead" is based on the writer's memories of the years spent in the Omsk prison camp. According to critics, this work marks the true beginning of Dostoevsky with his psychological depth and richness of characters. In "Notes from the House of the Dead," a world unfolds before the reader, where violence against the human personality takes on a familiar, everyday nature. It is a story that narrates the fates of the outcasts whom Dostoevsky encountered while doing hard labor. The guilty and the innocent, murderers and smugglers, reckless thieves and educated counterfeiters, nobles and peasants… Each inhabitant of the prison "House of the Dead," created by Dostoevsky's pen, remains forever in memory.