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 PunishmentThe Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, for his novella Notes from Underground and his existential novella and modern-day TikTok sensation White Nights.