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Dostoevsky is born in Moscow in the Russian Empire
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Dostoevsky is sent to French Boarding School
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Dostoevsky enrolls at a Military Engineering Institute in St Petersburg. He is uninterested in math and science and does not fit in well.
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Dostoevsky takes a job as a lieutenant engineer. He travels frequently to Tallinn, Estonia where he visits his brother. He attends plays, operas and ballets
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Poor Folk, his first work, is published. It is a commercial success.
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Dostoevsky is arrested for involvement in a socialist literary group that reads banned books. He is at first sentenced to death but this ruling is changed to exile in Siberia.
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Begins prison labour in Omsk, Siberia
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Meets his first wife
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Released from prison but still forced to work for the military in Siberia.
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Returns to St Petersburg. Struggles to publish works that are well received.
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Travels across much of Western Europe. He is horrified by some facets of the industrial revolution.
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Crime and Punishment is published. One of his most renowned works.
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Marries his second wife, Anna. They have four children but only two survive childhood.
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The Brothers Karamazov is published.
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Delivers a famous speech on Pushkin, another famous Russian writer, to crowds in Moscow
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Dostoevsky dies in St Petersburg of a lung hemorrhage at age 59