205 years of Dostoevsky: why he is called "the Russian prophet" all over the world.
On November 11, 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, in the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor. More than a hundred years later, his birth was aligned with the death of Napoleon: "There is the emperor of Western civilization, here is the Russian prophet, the harbinger of the coming civilization." Even then, Leo Tolstoy was confused: "It's strange that they read him so much, I don't understand why! " But in the 21st century, the interest only grew: in Japan, the eighth translation of the Karamazov brothers was swept off the shelves, with a circulation of one million copies, and White Nights went viral on English social networks and became one of the best-selling works of 2024.
Why Dostoevsky's heroes turned out to be "closest to our time" and how "A writer's diary" was waiting for blogs - they told in AiF.