Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, Russia, on November 11, 1821, the son of a doctor. His family was very religious, and Dostoevsky was deeply religious all his life. He began reading widely when he was a youth. He was first educated his mother, father, and tutors, but at thirteen years old he one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. His works often feature characters living Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life Geir Kjetsaa at - ISBN 10: 0333470435 - ISBN 13: 9780333470435 - Macmillan - 1988 - Hardcover. Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life Summary. Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life Geir Kjetsaa. Unfortunately we do not have a summary for this item at the Crime and Punishment is a path-breaking novel of ideas that changed the course of novel writing in the 20th century. The intense insights into the workings of the human mind had seldom been attempted any writer anywhere in the world till then. The author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was the son of a hardworking but indigent doctor in Moscow. He was Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Early works: The first work Dostoyevsky published was a rather free and emotionally intensified translation of Honor