A short presentation on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's biography his life, work and writing. He was the great novelist, writer, short story writer and an essayist.

1. www.literatureguide.in

2. Quick details about Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

3. • Full Name: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
• Birth: 11, Nov, 1821
• Death: 1881
• Graduation : S.T Petersburg
• Father : Mikhail Andrevich
• Mother : Maria Fedorova
• Wife : Maria Dmitrivna Konstant Isaeva (first wife who died in
1864)
Anna Guigorievna Snitkina (second wife)

4. His five major works

5. • Crime And Punishment published in 1866
• The Brother karamazav 1879
• The House of Dead published in 1862
• Notes From Underground published in 1864
• The Idiot published in 1868
• Demons published in 1871

6. • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky the writer of Crime And Punishment
and The Brother karamazav born in a middle class a family, he was the
second child of his parents Mikhail Andrevich and Maria Fedorova.
• He was the great novelist, writer, philosopher, and write many esayes
& short stories.
• When he was just sixteen years old lost his mother and in 1839 his
father murdered by one of his serf, at that time he was eighteen years
old.
• He was trained as a engineer, but when he did not find any creative
satisfaction in this profession, decide to enter in literature world.
• His novel was “Poor Folk” published in 1846.
• His literary career took turn when he translated “Eugenie Grandet by
Honore De Balzac” and then in 1844 “George Sand’s La Derniere
Allini”.

7. Some tragedies of his life

8. • In 1849 he arrested for his participation in a radical political group,
and have to pass several years in prison.
• Murder of his father
• Death of his wife
• After the death of his wife, he propose “Apollinarees Suslova” his
mistress to marry him but she rejected.
• Start gambling in order to come out from his financial crisis