The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets (Philosophy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) =================================================== ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. On December 22, 1849, the 28-year-old Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky faced a firing ...

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 ...

“I have been five days in Wiesbaden and already I have lost everything, the whole lot, even my watch,” Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in autumn of 1863 to a fellow Russian novelist, Ivan Turgene ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in this 1872 portrait, is often compared to fellow Russian author Leo Tolstoy as the greatest novelist of all time. Courtesy image “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor ...

He hired European architects and engineers and commissioned a rectilinear city plan that Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Crime and Punishment, would liken to a grid on the marsh—a facade of perfect form and ...

“The point of my going away is that immeasurably more will open up. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit won’t come,” says Jesus, ...

Here’s a data point that may be useful in the tricky task of choosing between excellent translations of a Russian classic: In Constance Garnett’s canonical 1912 version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

You may have a bit of Fyodor in you—many of us do: a little uncomfortable in our own skin, a bit at odds with the world, easily pushed into an existential funk. A dose of Dostoyevsky’s ...

The casino in the Kurhaus at Baden-Baden, one of three spa towns where the 19th-century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gambled his money away.Credit...Felix Schmitt for The New York Times ...