In 1839 they lost their father, a retired military surgeon and a violent alcoholic, who served as a doctor at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow. Shortly after his mother died of tuberculosis in 1837, he and his brother Mikhail were sent to the Military Engineering Academy at St. (Origins from Polish Szlachta family Dostojewski CoA Radwan). He is sometimes considered to be a founder of existentialism, most frequently for Notes from Underground, which has been described by Walter Kaufmann as 'the best overture for existentialism ever written.'ĭostoevsky was the second of seven children born to Mikhail and Maria Dostoevsky. Many of his best-known works are prophetic precursors to modern-day thoughts. His works often feature characters living in poor conditions with disparate and extreme states of mind, and exhibit both an uncanny grasp of human psychology as well as penetrating analyses of the political, social and spiritual states of Russia of his time. info)) (Novem – Febru) is considered one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, Fëdor Mihajlovič Dostoevskij, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky listen (help

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