
After her death the family moved to a spacious country estate.

His father, a doctor, was a tyrannical disciplinarian his mother was a pious woman who died before Dostoevsky was sixteen. Author Biographyīorn in Moscow on October 30, 1821, Dostoevsky grew up in a privileged family. His work has influenced many important writers and thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, and Sigmund Freud. Today, The Brothers Karamazov is considered one of the greatest novels in world literature moreover, Dostoyevsky is renowned as one of the preeminent figures in Russian literature, along with such authors as Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and Alexander Pushkin. On its publication in 1881 readers were shocked by the controversial nature of the novel, in particular the frank discussions of religion and class division. The book is also a novel of ideas: Fedor Dostoevsky debates the existence of God, the role of religion in modern societies, and the consequences of class differences on the individual.


At the heart of The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery surrounding the homicide of a family patriarch, Fyodor Karamazov, and the role of his sons in the crime.
