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[[Image:Dostoevsky 1872.jpg|thumb|right|Portrait by Vasily Perov, 1872]]'''Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky''' (Russian language: [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Фёдор Миха�?йлович До�?тое�?в�?кий]Миха́йлович Достое́вский, ''Fëdor Mihajlovi�? Mihajlovič Dostoevskij'', sometimes [[Transliteration of Russian into English|transliterated]] '''Dostoyevsky''' {{Audio|ru-Dostoevsky.ogg|listen}}) ({{OldStyleDate|[[October 30]]/[[November 11|]], 1821|October 30}} – {{OldStyleDate|[[January 28]]/[[February 9|]], 1881|January 28}}) is considered one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. 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. Many of his best-known works are prophetic precursors to modern-day thoughts. He is sometimes considered to be a founder of [[w:existentialism|existentialism]], most frequently for ''Notes from Underground'', which has been described by Walter Kaufmann as "the best overture for existentialism ever written".

In his later years, Fyodor Dostoevsky lived for a long time at the resort of Staraya Russa which was closer to St Petersburg and less expensive than German resorts. He died on [[January 28]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]]), 1881 of a lung hemorrhage associated with emphysema and an epileptic seizure and was interred in [[Tikhvin Cemetery]] at the [[Alexander Nevsky Monastery]], St. Petersburg, Russia. Forty thousand mourning Russians attended his funeral.{{rfref|1|IdiotIntro}} His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, ''The Brothers Karamazov''.

{{entnote|1|IdiotIntro}} Dostoevsky,Fyodor; Introduction- ''The Idiot'', Wordsworth Ed. Ltd, 1996.

* ''Двойник. Петербург�?ка�? по�?маПетербургская поэма'' (''[[The Double: A Petersburg Poem]]'') ([[1846]])* ''�?еточка �?езвановаНеточка Незванова'' (''[[Netochka Nezvanova]]'') ([[1849]])* ''Село Степанчиково и его обитатели'' (''[[The Village of Stepanchikovo]]'' or ''The Friend of the Family'') ([[1859]])* ''Униженные и о�?корбленныеоскорбленные'' (''[[The Insulted and Humiliated]]'') ([[1861]])* ''Запи�?ки Записки из мертвого дома'' (''[[The House of the Dead(novel)|The House of the Dead]]'') ([[1860]])* ''Скверный анекдот'' (''[[A Nasty Story]]'') ([[1862]])* ''Запи�?ки Записки из подполь�?подполья'' (''[[Notes from Underground]]'' or ''Letters from the Underworld'') ([[1864]])* ''Пре�?тупление Преступление и наказание'' (''[[Crime and Punishment]]'') ([[1866]])* ''Игрок '' (''[[The Gambler(novella)|The Gambler]]'') ([[1867]])* ''Идиот'' (''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'') ([[1868]])* ''Бе�?ыБесы'' (''[[The Possessed]]'', also known as ''Demons'' or ''The Devils'') ([[1872]])* ''Подро�?токПодросток'' (''[[The Raw Youth]]'' or ''The Adolescent'') ([[1875]])* ''Брать�? Братья Карамазовы'' (''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'') ([[1880]])

* ''Белые ночи'' (''[[White Nights(short story)|White Nights]]'') ([[1848]])* ''Елка и �?вадьбасвадьба'' (''[[A Christmas Tree and a Wedding]]'') ([[1848]])* ''Че�?тный Честный вор'' (''[[An Honest Thief]]'') ([[1848]])* ''[[The Peasant Marey]]'' ([[1876]])* ''Сон �?мешного смешного человека'' (''[[The Dream of a Ridiculous Man]]'') ([[1877]])* ''A Gentle Creature,'' sometimes translated as ''The Meek Girl'' ([[1876]])

*[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w:/index.php?title=Fyodor_Dostoevsky&oldid=73969810|''Fyodor Dostoevsky'' on Wikipedia article]]