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Originally Posted by atari 2600
He was born on November 11, 1821. I knew something didn't seem right about that.
king_buzzo, Dostoyevsky is important even today because after his release from exile in Siberian labor camp, he settled in St. Petersburg. Why does this matter? St. Petersburg was the first major city in Russia to experiment with democracy and free enterprise under Czarist Russia. Russia was going through tremendous growing pangs during his lifetime, with many leaders and intellectuals having differing opinions. Dostoyevesky's fiction deals with all the existential issues of a free society in an archetypal way, before modern life has endlessly jumbled and confused these matters and his characters often embody the varied ideological points of view concerning the proper course for the future of Russia.
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I don't think you can trust
Wikipedia on that one because it can be changed by anyone. And
Fydodor's Website even says it is his birthday today.