A Russian court sentences writer <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky" id="mwYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fyodor Dostoyevsky">Fyodor Dostoyevsky</a> to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.