Dostoieffsky

Dostoieffsky, Feodor Mikhailovitch (1818-1881), a Russian author, born at Moscow. He at first entered the army, but abandoned it for literature. He wrote a work, Poor People, in 1846, but being concerned in plots in 1849, he was condemned to the mines of Siberia for twelve years. He was allowed to return to St. Petersburg in 1856, and in 1861 he wrote an account of prison life. In 1868 he published Crime and Punishment, which was well received, and has been translated, but other works of his have not made much mark.