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Dostoevsky’s childhood and youth:<\/h2>\n
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According to many Russian writers who wrote works of the same period, Dostoevsky came from a very different social group. His father was a former military surgeon and his mother was the daughter of a small merchant. After his father retired from military surgery, he started helping the poor at the Mariinskiy Hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, with his full name, was born in this hospital in 1821.<\/p>\n
Dostoevsky’s father was a cruel and alcoholic man. His mother, on the other hand, was a kind-hearted woman who struggled with recurrent illnesses. Dostoevsky’s early life was spent between these two personalities. Until he lost his mother at the age of 15…<\/p>\n
Fyodor, who entered the Petersburg Military Engineering School at the age of 16, lost his father while continuing his education there. It is also said that Dostoevsky’s father was killed by peasants in the village where their family farm is located. After graduating from technical school, Fyodor only lasted a year to serve as a soldier.<\/p>\n
Dostoyevsky, who resigned from his job, rolled up his sleeves to enter literature. But he had a major problem ahead of him. His family was not wealthy and he inherited a very small inheritance from his father. So when Fyodor resigned from his job and became a penniless writer, he took the first big gamble of his life. But this would not be the only gamble he had ever taken, nor would it be his biggest.<\/p>\n
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Dostoevsky and the first literary period:<\/h2>\n
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We mentioned that Dostoevsky had great ideals. Fyodor took the first step towards realizing these ideals with the novel Insanciklar<\/em> , which he wrote in 1846. He sent this novel to Belinski through a friend. Belinski, the famous critic of the period, liked Insanciklar very much and praised him. Thanks to this, Fyodor was able to enter the literary circle of his dreams.<\/p>\n