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A young genius hits enters the world crying out the sounds of agony that would later be embodied by his characters -
You can't change the mindset of a genius who wants to be heard -
A young man releases his first novel. Little could the world know what greatness was to come -
People began to revolt against monarchies. #fightthepower -
Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto. Dostoyevsky would have none of it though and warned against the disasters such a system would bring. Did he have a crystal ball or just straight up genius? -
Dostoyevsky gets thrown in prison, sent to death row, and finds out the whole thing was a rouse. That'd be enough to make any genius go stupid. -
After his execution was revealed to be fake he was sentenced to four years of hard labor in a Siberian institute. Talk about rough character work! -
The Crimean War begins and Nicholas I gets brutally defeated in 1856, making him tonight’s big loser -
After his four years of labor he was then sent to serve in the military. He endured more hardships than his characters. Like father, like sons -
Perhaps he was the husband under another wife's bed -
The Great Reforms were introduced by tsar Alexander II to catch Russia up with the rest of Western Europe. For a man operating in a country that was so behind Dostoyevsky was ahead of his time -
You did the crime, you have to do the time -
He’s done it again folks! -
Her name was Sofya. She died three months later of pneumonia. It was reported Dostoyevsky "wept and sobbed like a woman in despair" -
I think it’s a book about Tyler. Zing! -
All of the new technology caused massive food shortages and pollution to spike. Russians contributed to global warming before it was cool. -
Stay true to the Lord's good word -
Why can't we all just get along? -
Reports say Dostoyevsky had up to 100,000 mourners at his funeral. Bro had clout before the 'gram was even conceived. -
The Tsar is killed when a member of People's Will, a radical group, throws a bomb at him. Talk about going out with a bang.