Turgenev had an awkward relationship with two other famous Russian writers â `` Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky criticised Turgenev for liking Western Europe and itâ s literature more than Russian Literature . His relations with Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were often strained , as the two were , for various reasons , dismayed by Turgenev 's seeming preference for Western Europe .