Dostoevsky In Love

Dostoevsky’s life was brilliant and cruel. Sentenced to death as a revolutionary, he escaped the execution, survived the Siberian exile and was admitted to the king’s immediate circle. He had three great love novels, each of which was overshadowed by exhausting epilepsy and addiction to gambling. But at this time stories, journalistic works and novels, such as "Crime and Punishment", "Idiot" and "Brothers Karamazov", recognized by the world property and indisputable masterpieces, were written. In Dostoevsky In Love, Alex Christophi weaved into a single whole carefully selected excerpts from the author’s works and the historical context. The result was a novel that immerses the reader in the grand prospect of Dostoevsky’s world: from the Siberian camp to the gambling halls of Europe, from the raw prison cells of the tsarist fortress to the exquisite salons of St. Petersburg. Christophy also told the stories of three women whose lives were so closely intertwined with the life of the writer: Mary"s consumption widow,