Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist who had an immense and lasting impact on twentieth-century fiction, tackling areas that delve into the human psyche in the troubled political and social climate of nineteenth-century Russia. He is best remembered today for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, for his novella Notes from Underground and his existential novella and modern-day TikTok sensation White Nights.
