The famous Russian author shows us what’s to fear in a world without God. The dogma of progress may never recover from the 20th century. Entire continents razed by war, whole peoples wiped from Earth, ...

A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution. By Peter Wehner The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and ...

The facts of Fyodor Dostoyevsky`s life as given to us in these volumes are (and were) the stuff that great and gloomy novels are made of. While still in his 20s, Dostoyevsky was arrested in 1849 and ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, best known for his novels Crime And Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. Considered one of Russia's greatest writers, ...

Kurhaus, a Neoclassical spa structure in Wiesbaden. — Photos: FELIX SCHMITT/NYT “I have been five days in Wiesbaden and already I have lost everything, the whole lot, even my watch,” Fyodor ...

Living through a last-minute death-sentence reprieve, followed by nine years of hard labor and military service in Siberia, left Dostoyevsky “born again,” writes Susan McReynolds, who teaches Slavic ...

Poets, in a way, are always strangers. And the remarkable contemporary Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov–whose 1993 “Whispering Pages” opens Friday for a one-week run at Facets Multimedia–is no ...

Feodor Dostoyevsky, the great 19th-century Russian novelist, was a gambler who squandered vast sums at the roulette tables of Paris and Baden-Baden. Like all compulsive gamblers, he was captive to his ...

"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth." The sentence of ...