Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky is among the four or five greatest novelists of the nineteenth century and his masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov is for many critics the greatest novel of all time. He was the quintessential Russian who devoted much of his writing to the peculiar nature of Russia, yet he was one of the most international writers of the whole century. He traveled widely. He lived in several countries. He spoke and wrote five languages including English. He read the work of every important novelist in England, France and Germany and was as comfortable in French as in Russian. When he died in 1881 at the age of 59, all of Russia was plunged into a grief that is normally associated with the passing of a king or queen or other national leader. He was buried in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg. Forty thousand mourners atteneded his funeral.
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