And almost as obsessive was Dostoevsky's preoccupation with death, for while the young student was away at school, his father was killed by the serfs on his estate. He spent most of his time, therefore, dabbling in literary matters and reading the latest authors his penchant for literature was obsessive.
His father, an army doctor attached to the staff of a public hospital, was a stern and self-righteous man while his mother was the opposite - passive, kindly, and generous - and perhaps this fact accounts for Dostoevsky's filling his novels with characters who seem to possess opposite extremes of temperament.ĭostoevsky's early education was in an army engineering school, where he was apparently bored with the dull routine and the unimaginative student life.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in 1821, the second of seven children, and lived until 1881.
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