Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in 1821, in Moscow — not into comfort, but into contradiction.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in 1821, in Moscow — not into comfort, but into contradiction.

His father served as a doctor at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, and the family lived close by, within sight of its grim courtyards. From his window, young Fyodor watched the endless procession of the sick and the forgotten — scenes that etched themselves into his mind and shaped the dark compassion of his later work.

He grew up between worlds — among the educated and the impoverished, the faithful and the lost.
That early sight of human suffering shaped his soul. It became the heartbeat of his stories — the struggle between guilt and grace, despair and redemption.
From the hospital yard of Moscow rose one of the greatest minds in world literature.

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