The famous Russian author shows us what’s to fear in a world without God. The dogma of progress may never recover from the 20th century. Entire continents razed by war, whole peoples wiped from Earth, ...

A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution. By Peter Wehner The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and ...

Living through a last-minute death-sentence reprieve, followed by nine years of hard labor and military service in Siberia, left Dostoyevsky “born again,” writes Susan McReynolds, who teaches Slavic ...

The facts of Fyodor Dostoyevsky`s life as given to us in these volumes are (and were) the stuff that great and gloomy novels are made of. While still in his 20s, Dostoyevsky was arrested in 1849 and ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, best known for his novels Crime And Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. Considered one of Russia's greatest writers, ...

LONDON—Is Europe having a Dostoyevsky moment? Or is it a Pushkin moment? French President Emmanuel Macron cited Dostoyevsky’s speech about Pushkin—in which the writer makes a dramatic appeal for ...

Feodor Dostoyevsky, the great 19th-century Russian novelist, was a gambler who squandered vast sums at the roulette tables of Paris and Baden-Baden. Like all compulsive gamblers, he was captive to his ...

A SPOTLIGHT SEARCHES the dark stage of the Maly Drama Theatre in St Petersburg. It picks out a young man in a monk’s robe sitting on a chair, a suitcase on his lap. He rises, changes into secular ...