Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He was the son of a doctor ;
In 1849 he was arrested;
After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others taken out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot;
four years he has spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the "Dead House“;
in 1859 he returned to Russia
He was in terrible poverty;
was forced to write at heart-breaking speed
Crime and Punishment
Does madness turn a man into a criminal or does crime turn a criminal mad? …
