Feodor Dostoyevsky, the great 19th-century Russian novelist, was a gambler who squandered vast sums at the roulette tables of Paris and Baden-Baden. Like all compulsive gamblers, he was captive to his ...

A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution. By Peter Wehner The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and ...

A lesser-known work by the 19th-century Russian novelist is enjoying a sales boom driven by TikTok. What’s that all about? 在2024年，初版于1848年的《白夜》意外地成为了畅销经典文学作品。是什么原因让这本书焕发了新生？部分答案在于TikTok。 As the ...

LONDON—Is Europe having a Dostoyevsky moment? Or is it a Pushkin moment? French President Emmanuel Macron cited Dostoyevsky’s speech about Pushkin—in which the writer makes a dramatic appeal for ...

The famous Russian author shows us what’s to fear in a world without God. The dogma of progress may never recover from the 20th century. Entire continents razed by war, whole peoples wiped from Earth, ...

Tens of thousands of dragooned serfs perished while draining the swamps to lay the foundations of St. Petersburg, and residents like to remind visitors that their city, enchanting though it may be, ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, best known for his novels Crime And Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. Considered one of Russia's greatest writers, ...

Living through a last-minute death-sentence reprieve, followed by nine years of hard labor and military service in Siberia, left Dostoyevsky “born again,” writes Susan McReynolds, who teaches Slavic ...

A SPOTLIGHT SEARCHES the dark stage of the Maly Drama Theatre in St Petersburg. It picks out a young man in a monk’s robe sitting on a chair, a suitcase on his lap. He rises, changes into secular ...