Biography of Dostoyevsky in relation to his worksIt is often remarkable to see the relationship between the events of an author's life and those of his works. Many great authors have transcribed the pivotal moments of their lives on paper so that readers can enjoy, sympathize or get angry. Certainly, Fyodor (or Fyodor) Dostoyevsky, being no different from the best in his profession, lived a life with experiences that greatly influenced his writings. His masterpieces are the ultimate manifestations of his tumultuous relationship with pain, sorrow, anger and misery, as each recounts dark worlds and conflicts with social status, money or oneself. Overall, Dostoyevsky's past, lived in constant torment with himself and his ideals, is transferred to every page of his novel Crime and Punishment. Indeed, the difficult lessons he learned from his own mistakes jump from the page to readers, as if he wants us to learn something too. Born in Moscow in 1821, during the reign of tyrannical Russian tsars and slavery with the more palatable terminology of serfdom, young Dostoyevsky witnessed the violent nature of an alcoholic. As the son of a vicious military surgeon whose brutality after drinking led the family's serfs to one day choke him by pouring whiskey down his throat (Leatherbarrow 13), his dislike and disgust for the alcohol are easy to understand. In an unexpected turn of events, Nicholas I freed all the serfs during Dostoyevsky's adolescence and thus left him and his family on the brink of destitution. However, in the wake of emancipation, he became a strong advocate for the rights of serfs and even demanded government subsidies to help them start anew (15). His campaign for better conditions for peasants and fields...... middle of paper ...... upon his death in 1881 (Leatherbarrow 30), Dostoyevsky left the world a legacy of astonishing works that probe the depths of the human soul: The Double, The House of the Dead, Notes from the Clandestine, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, etc. (31). Works Cited “The Life and Career of Dostoyevsky, 1859-1863.” LESSON 8 Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Metro. Russian 5421, University of Minnesota. December 28, 2007, .Knapp, Liza. Giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. Prince Frederick, MD: Modern Scholar, 2007. Leatherbarrow, William J. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. Leone, Bruno, Brenda Stalcup, Bonnie Szumski, and Tamara Johnson, eds. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: a literary companion. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 54-83.