Fyodor Dostoevsky

By peytonkingsley
  • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

  • Birth

    Born in Moscow to parents Mikhail and Maria Dostoevsky, the second child of 7 brothers and sisters.

  • Begins boarding school in Moscow with his brother

  • Goes to private high school, Chermak in Moscow

  • Mom dies at age 37, sent to prepratory school in St. Petersburg

  • 16 Years Old

    He grew up on the property of the Mariiknsky Hospital, on elf the worse parts in Moscow, where his father worked. He grew up amid an orphanage, insane asylum, and a cemetery for criminals. He grew up with compassion for the poor and tormented. When Dostoyevsky was younger, liked to wonder out to the lawn where mental patients would sit, and he would sit and listen to their stories.

  • Admitted to St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineers

  • while at the Engeneering academy he wrote two romantic plays that were influenced by the German Romantic Playwrite Friedrich Schiller

  • Became a lieutenant in the Army

  • Graduated from Military Academy as Lieutenant and worked as Draughtsman in St. Petersburg Army

  • Began writing his own fiction pieces

  • he resigned his engineering position to devote himself to writing

  • First work, epistolary short novel, Poor Folk published

  • Poor Folk was fully published as a book and Dostoevsky because a literary celebrity by the age of 24

  • Arrested and imprisoned for being a part of the liberal intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle

  • Released from prison; forced to serve in the Siberian Regiment

  • married Maria Dmitrievna

  • Returned to Saint Petersburg where he ran a series of unsuccessful literary journals

  • wife passed away, followed shortly after his brothers death

  • Published Crime and Punishment

  • Married Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina

  • Stopped gambling

  • Returrns to Russia, his son Fyodor is born in St. Petersburg

  • Another one of his sons is born

  • In the last five years of his life, his health declined rapidly due to where he was living which was in Staraya Russa

  • Imprisoned for violation of sensorship

  • Just before his death his son died of a severe epileptic seizure

  • diagnosed with pulmonary emphysema

  • Although he was in a fragile state, he undertook positions to the honorary committee of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale

  • Delivers famous speech in Moscow

  • His greatest novel "The Brothers Karamazov" was released

  • the secret police raided Dostoevsky’s home and the following day suffered from a pulmonary haemorrhage

  • he died at the age of 59 after two more haemorrhages.

    He is buried in the Tikhvin Cemetary at Aleksander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg

  • His last words

    His last words were a quote from scripture, "But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness", and he finished with "Hear now—permit it. Do not restrain me!”