🗓️ Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Fyodor #Dostoevsky, the Russian thinker and philosopher widely regarded as one of the most gripping psychological novelists in history. He was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. As a young man, he studied at a military engineering school in St. Petersburg, a course his father had picked for him, and served briefly in the army. He then turned to writing, first translating Balzac’s “Eugénie Grandet” and then publishing his debut novel, “Poor Folk,” in 1846. The book was an instant sensation and turned him into a literary star almost overnight. ✍️ From the mid-1860s onward he produced the major works that secured his lasting fame, among them “Notes from the House of the Dead,” “Crime and Punishment,” “The Idiot,” “Demons,” “The Gambler,” and “The Brothers Karamazov.” Dostoevsky was celebrated for his deep insight into the darkest corners of the tormented human soul, and his writing wrestles with questions of good and evil, faith, and the quest for meaning. His books have been translated into over 170 languages and have inspired countless writers and thinkers, from fellow Russian authors Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. #RussianCulture #DiscoverRussia