Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
1821-1881 60 years
Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский
1821-1881 60 years
Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский
Russian author
many books, Brothers Karamazov (last book), Crime
and Punishment, The Idiot, etc...
2nd of 7 children
father was a military surgeon, possibly of Lithuanian
origin, some stories say he was murdered by his
servants.
Dostoevsky was an anti-czarist in the beginning,
was arrested and imprisoned for his activities,
supposedly reprieved at the last moment when he
went before a firing squad.
renounced socialist ideas, became a Christian
married a widow, who died
went to Europe, married a 20 year old girl
had gambling compulsion, drinking, poverty
moved to St. Petersburg, died of
emphysema/epilepsy, buried.
many books, Brothers Karamazov (last book), Crime
and Punishment, The Idiot, etc...
2nd of 7 children
father was a military surgeon, possibly of Lithuanian
origin, some stories say he was murdered by his
servants.
Dostoevsky was an anti-czarist in the beginning,
was arrested and imprisoned for his activities,
supposedly reprieved at the last moment when he
went before a firing squad.
renounced socialist ideas, became a Christian
married a widow, who died
went to Europe, married a 20 year old girl
had gambling compulsion, drinking, poverty
moved to St. Petersburg, died of
emphysema/epilepsy, buried.
| Dostoevsky has written a beautiful novel, The Idiot. Had Lao Tzu read it he would have appreciated it. The idiot in Dostoevsky's novel is exactly the man who will be called foolish, but who is wise. The world has gone so foolish that if you want to be wise you have to be foolish according to the people around you... --Osho Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol. 4, ch. 1 |
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