classic of Russian literature, publicist, philosopher.
in 1845 wrote his first novel "People of Misery", in the form of letters telling about the great and noble love of a poor Petersburg official.
The roots of F. Dostoevsky's family reached back to the old Republic of the Two : his grandfather was a senior Unitarian clergyman in Podole (Western Ukraine), which was ruled by Poland, and the family claimed to originate from the 17th century. Lithuanian nobility. The homeland of the family was in the village of Dostoyev, located northeast of Pinsk (now Belarus).
