Dostoevsky's biography in relation to his works It is often remarkable to see the relationship between events in an author's life and that of his works. Many great authors have transcribed the crucial moments of their existence on paper for readers to enjoy, sympathize with or rage. Certainly Fyodor (or Fedor) Dostoevsky, being no different from the best of his profession, lived a life with experiences that greatly influenced his writings. His masterpieces represent the maximum manifestations of his tumultuous relationship with pain, sadness, anger, misery, as each one tells of dark worlds and conflicts with social status, money or oneself. Overall, Dostoevsky's past, lived in constant torment with himself and his ideals, is transferred to every page of his novel Crime and Punishment, in fact, the difficult lessons learned from his own mistakes leap off the page to readers, as if he wanted We too have to learn something. Born in Moscow in 1821 during the reign of the tyrannical Russian tsars and the more palatable terminology of serfdom, the young Dostoevsky witnessed firsthand the violent nature of an alcoholic. As the son of a ferocious military surgeon whose brutality after drinking led the family's servants to choke him to death one day by pouring whiskey down his throat (Leatherbarrow 13), his aversion and disgust for alcohol is easily understandable. In an unexpected turn of events, Nicholas I freed all the serfs during Dostoevsky's adolescence and consequently left him and his family on the brink of penury. In the wake of emancipation, however, he became a fierce advocate for serfs' rights and even called for government subsidies to help them start over (15). With his campaign for better conditions for the peasants and for the world... when he died in 1881 (Leatherbarrow 30), Dostoevsky left the world a legacy of extraordinary works that plumb the depths of life. the human soul: The Double, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Obsessed, The Brothers Karamazov, etc. (31). Works Cited" Life and Career, 1859-1863." LESSON 8 Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground. Russo 5421, University of Minnesota. December 28, 2007, .Knapp, Liza. Giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. Prince Frederick, MD: Modern Scholar, 2007.Leatherbarrow, William J. Fedor Dostoevsky. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. Leone, Bruno, Brenda Stalcup, Bonnie Szumski, and Tamara Johnson, eds. Fyodor Dostoevsky: a literary companion. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 54-83.