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The Search for Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky who is known as a great novelist wrote timeless classics such as The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, was non only a novelist, but a good psychologist who uncovered the sneaking(a) sides of the human beings in a very effective way. His novels also affect Freud, Nietzsche, and Joyce. However there is one point that is a mystery. Did Dostoyevsky really smooth his own feelings, especially his fears, into the extensions of his novels? Fyodor was born(p) in Moscow on October 30 in 1821 in Hospital for the poor, the second of seven children. His mother Mme Marya Feodorovna and dumbfound Dr. M. Andrey Dostoyevsky whose surname comes from a modest vill duration, Dostoevo, came from the Lithuanian nobility. Dr. Dostoyevskys father was a non-Christian priest in Ukrainia who wanted his son to be a priest deal him. However, Andrey ran away from home to become a doctor when he was fifteen. He was accepted to the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in 1809, and continued his go in various hospitals. Fyodors only elder brother Mikhail was born in 1820, one year earlier than Fyodor (Troyat 37). They lived in a small apartment on the hospital grounds for a long time. When Fyodor reached the age of thirteen, Dr. Dostoyevsky became a nobleman, and moved to Darovoe where he bought a small land to the highest degree 150 versts. Dostoyevsky mentioned about his mother with a great love. According to him, she was a cheerful, warm and adorable person. He lost her mother in 1837 when he was about sixteen. His father, however, draws a contrast portrait with his mother. He suffered from headaches that affected his character deeply in a negative way. Althou... ...rform, and made him feel like a murderer. This is the fear of a lonely person which forced him to draw his unique characters. Many times, I feel guilty as if I committed a murder. F. M. DostoyevskyWorks Cited Con radi, Peter J. Fyodor Dostoevsky.Basingstoke Macmillan , 1988. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. CrimeandPunishment. New York The groundbreaking Library, 1950. Frank, Joseph.Dostoyevsky TheSeedsofRevolt 18211849.Princeton Princeton UP,1976. Frank, Joseph. Dostoyevsky TheYears of Ordeal 1850 - 1859. Princeton Princeton UP, 1983. Jones, Malcolm. Dostoyevsky After Bakhtin Readings in Dostoyevskys unfounded Realism. Cambridge Cambridge UP,1990.Simmons, Ernest J. Dostoyevsky The making of a novelist. London John Lehmann Ltd,1950. Troyat, Henri. Dostoyevsky. Istanbul Cem Yay?nevi,1973.