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Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of history’s greatest novelists, but he is also one of history’s greatest psychologists.
His stories contain depictions of characters who span the spectrum of human personality, from those of abject evil, to those saintly in nature. Friedrich Nietzsche was so impressed with the works of Dostoevsky that in a letter to a friend he stated that Dostoevsky’s novels contain “the most valuable psychological material I know” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Georg Brandes). In this video we explore the life events that transformed Dostoevsky into a tortured genius and helped him attain his unmatched understanding of the human psyche.
In the first months of 1849, Dostoevsky, then 27 years old, was considered a writer who had not lived up to his early potential.
Three years prior he had published the book Poor Folk which catapulted him to fame in the Russian literary scene. But his subsequent
