Dostoevsky

«Dostoevsky is as Russia is, with all its darkness and light. And he is — the greatest contribution of Russia to the spiritual life of the whole world». These are the words of N. Berdyaev, but other researchers of the... work of the great writer, who opened up such abysses of good and evil in the human soul that no previous world literature could imagine, agree with them. In the great works of Dostoevsky, his fate is fully reflected — the mysterious death of his father, years of poverty and spiritual searches, hard labor and military service for participating in a revolutionary circle, a difficult ascent to fame, which made him — both during his lifetime and posthumously — the object of both enthusiastic praise and fierce attacks. The details of the writer's life, down to the most unknown and «inconvenient», are fully reflected in his biography by Lyudmila Saraskina — a well-known literary historian, author of fifteen books dedicated to Dostoevsky and his contemporaries.