Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as the author of some of the most important Russian novels of the 19th Century, such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.

Richard Freeborn MA DPhil DLitt, is Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at the University of London. He is the author of Turgenev: The Novelist’s Novelist; A Short History of Modern Russia; The Rise of the Russian Novel and The Russian Revolutionary Novel. He contributed to The Cambridge History of Russian Literature; The Age of Realism; Encyclopedia of the Novel; Reference Guide to Russian Literature; and The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy and has co-edited Russian Literature Attitudes from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn; Russian and Slavic Literature and Ideology in Russian Literature. He has also translated several works by Ivan Turgenev, as well as Dostoevsky’s An Accidental Family.

‘Freeborn is a learned guide and struggles manfully with the impossible task of squeezing Dostoevsky into a pint pot.’ — John Carey Culture Sunday Times