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1821 – 1881 · Moscow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Born Moscow, Russia
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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a doctor at a hospital for the poor. He trained as a military engineer but quit to write. His first novel, Poor Folk, made him famous at twenty-four.
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