Noun
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Source: WordNetImportant literary precursors of modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81), who wrote the novels Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880); David Denby, New Yorker, 11 June 2012 "Can Dostoevsky Still Kick You in the Gut?" Source: Internet
Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have been described by literary critics as the greatest novelists of all time. citation citation By the 1880s, the age of the great novelists was over, and short fiction and poetry became the dominant genres. Source: Internet
So she set me up with a little desk in the corner of her classroom, with markers and some paper, and beseeched me to just color quietly while she transmuted the truths of Fyodor Dostoyevsky to her students for the last period of the day. Source: Internet