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Fyodor Dostoevsky.(the writer )(Biography)
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Date: 20060901
Author:Tocalino, Rob
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY STOOD PREPARED TO DIE. Sentenced to death in 1849 for his participation in the liberal socialist Petrashevsky circle, the 28-year-old writer had risen from near poverty to literary acclaim, only to stand blindfolded in the bitter cold, attended by a firing squad. Tsar Nikolai I sadistically cut the execution short at the last moment and shipped the paper revolutionaries o. to a Siberian labor camp. It is said that at least two of the prisoners went mad on the spot. Nervous fits would plague Dostoevsky (1821-1881) for the remainder of his days.
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