Dostoyevsky đã bị bắt và bỏ tù vào năm 1849 để tham gia vào hoạt động cách mạng chống lại Nga hoàng Nicholas I. Vào ngày 16 tháng 11 năm đó ông đã bị kết án tử hình đối với các hoạt động chống chính phủ liên quan đến một nhóm trí thức cấp tiến, vòng Petrashevsky. | Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. pe Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. About the author FyodorMikhaylovich Dostoevsky born November 11 October 30 Old Style 1821 Moscow died February 9 January 28 . 1881 St. Petersburg Russia Russian writer one of the major figures in Russian literature. He is sometimes said to be a founder of existentialism. Contents Born to parents Mikhail and Maria Fyodor was the second of seven children. Fyodor s mother died of an illness in 1837. Fyodor and his brother Michael were sent to the Military Engineering Academy at St. Petersburg shortly after their mother s death though these plans had begun even before she became ill. It was not long before his father a retired military surgeon who served as a doctor at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow also died in 1839. While not known for certain it is believed that Mikhail Dostoyevsky was murdered by his own serfs who reportedly became enraged during one of Mikhail s drunken fits of violence restrained him and poured vodka into his mouth until he drowned. Another story was that Mikhail died of natural causes and a neighboring landowner cooked up this story of a peasant rebellion so he could buy the estate cheap. Though no matter what happened Freud capitalized on tale in his famous article Dostoevsky and Parricide 1928 . Parti. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .Part 234567. .Part . gnM Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http Dostoyevsky was arrested and imprisoned in 1849 for engaging in revolutionary activity against Tsar Nicholas I. On November 16 that year he was sentenced to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group the Petrashevsky Circle. After a mock execution in which he faced a staged firing squad Dostoyevsky s sentence was commuted to a number of years of exile .