title: Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Study
author: Aimee Dostoyevsky
description: In reading biographies of my father, I have always been surprised to find that his biographers have studied him solely as a Russian, and sometimes even as the most Russian of Russians. Now Dostoevsky was Russian only on his mothers side, for his paternal ancestors were of Lithuanian origin. Of all lands in the Russian Empire, Lithuania is certainly the most interesting by reason of its transformations and the various influences it has undergone in the course of centuries.
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  # The Brothers Karamazov
  
  
  ## Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  
  
  (Translator:
  
  
  Constance Garnett)
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **Published:** 1880  
  
  
  **Categorie(s):** Fiction, Literary  
  
  
  **Source:** http://en.wikisource.org
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Dostoyevsky:**  
  
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30]
  
  
  1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two
  
  
  greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close
  
  
  contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound
  
  
  and lasting effect on twentieth-century thought and world
  
  
  literature. Dostoevsky's chief ouevre, mainly novels, explore the
  
  
  human psychology in the disturbing political, social and spiritual
  
  
  context of his 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as
  
  
  a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes
  
  
  from Underground (1864), written in t