What is Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
{{Infobox writer |name=Fyodor Dostoyevsky |image=Dostoevsky 1872.jpg |caption=Portrait by [[Vasily Perov]] (1872) |birth_name = Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky |birth_date = {{Birth date|1821|11|11}} |birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1881|2|9|1821|11|11}} |death_place = [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian Empire<br>[[Emphysema]] |occupation = [[Novelist]], [[short story]] writer, [[essay]]ist |language = [[Russian language|Russian]] |nationality = [[Russians|Russian]] |period = 1846–1881 |notableworks = ''[[Notes from Underground]]''<br>''[[Crime and Punishment]]''<br>''[[The Idiot]]''<br>''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' |spouse = Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva (1857–64) [her death] Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina (1867–1881) [his death] |children = Sofiya (1868), Lyubov (1869–1926), Fyodor (1871–1922), Alexei (1875–1878) |relatives = |signature = Fyodor Dostoyevsky Signature.svg}} [[File:Dostoevsky headstone closeup.jpg|thumb|Dostoevsky headstone]] '''Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky''' (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a [[Russia]]n [[novelist]].<ref>[[Old Style and New Style dates|Old style date]]: 30 October 1821 – 28 January 28.</ref><ref>{{lang-ru|Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский}}, ''{{transl|ru|Fëdor Mihajlovič Dostoevskij}}'', sometimes [[Transliteration|transliterated]] '''Dostoevsky''' {{Audio|ru-Dostoevsky.ogg|listen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=185 лет со дня рождения Федора Достоевского|url=http://www.pravoslavye.org.ua/index.php?r_type=article&action=fullinfo&id=13375|language=Russian|date=1 December 2006|work=Voice Ukraine}}</ref> His most popular novels are ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', ''[[The Idiot]]'' and ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''. He is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEx1OAAACAAJ|title=Geschichte der russischen Literatur: von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart|last=Lauer|first=Reinhard|date=2003|publisher=Beck|isbn=978-3-406-50267-5|language=de}}</ref> In his 20s he joined a group of radical