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Fyodor Dostoevski (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)

Early Life

Fyodor Dostoevski is one of only two great nineteenth century Russian writers—Anton Chekhov is the other—who failed, unlike Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev,

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