Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Death – Cause and Date
The novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky died at the age of 59. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Russian author whose deeply psychological and philosophical novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Another work, Notes from the Underground, established him as one of the founders of existentialism.
His first wife, Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva, passed away in 1864. Dostoevsky then married his stenographer, Anna Snitkina, soon after she helped him write The Gambler. He and Snitkina went on to have four children: Sofiya (born 1868, died as an infant), Lyubov (born 1869), Fyodor (born 1871), and Alexei (born 1875, died at age 3).
Quotes
"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
"The soul is healed by being with children.
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.