Fyodor Dostoevsky Resources

This is a chronology of events in Dostoevsky's life from the years of 1821 to 1881.  It also includes many of his novels, such as Crime and Punishment, The Gambler, The Idiot and The Eternal Husband.  Also mentioned is his speech in Moscow, only months before his death. 

http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/previous/ru351/bio.shtml 

This site contains various quotations from Dostoevsky's work.  It describes his traumatic experience involving the tsar of Russia.  There is also a summary  of his prison sentence and his family life. 

http://www.sfu.ca/~wwwpsyb/95summer/articles/jalava/html 

This link describes Dostoevsky's views on personality.  He describes the man of the nineteenth century and his morals.  There are also many useful quotations in this site; they describe his feelings toward  the "man of action" and a "person of intellect". 

http://www-philosphy.ucdavis.edu/phi151/NOV28LEC.HTML 

This is somewhat of a biography of Dostoevsky, mentioning his brother, Michael.  This site shows his profound impact on the philosophy of last century. 

http://www-philosophly.ucdavis.edu/phil151/nov301ec.html 

This site discusses Dostoevsky's novel the Brothers Karamazov.  Also mentioned is the second coming of Jesus.   Nietzsche describes his feelings towards the incident.  

http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/Dostoy/dostoy.html 

This is another biography with very insightful quotations involving the memories of man.  It discusses the family life of Dostoevsky while he was growing up.   Also mentioned is his prison sentence and his involvement in religion. 

http://www.word.com/habit/perry/dostoevs.html 

This is a very brief summary of Dostoevsky's life.  His novels are mentioned, but a deep explanation of them isn't given.  With regard to his novels, the feelings his characters possessed are given, but not in great detail.  

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6250/ 

This site is devoted to Dostoevsky.  There are links to other sites and there are some interesting links to browse through.  In this site also is the profound quotation that we have chosen for our author page, check it out! 

http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer/c.../previous/ru351/novels/cp/CP/.shtml 

This site contains quotations and a large picture of Dostoevsky.  It is a shorter site and may not be as useful as the others but is worth checking out. 

http://stange.simplenet.com/dostoevsky/html/quotes.html 

This link contains the opinions of such authors as Hesse, Conrad and Nietzsche. Dostoevsky is compared with Shakespeare, Dante and Goethe. Included are quotations from people who knew him and were familiar with his work. 

Last edited on:  04/20/98 by:  Jamie Troszynski & Ingrid Knezevich