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unusual facts about Dostoyevsky



Alecto

Alecto appeared in Virgil's Aeneid, in Dante's Inferno, in Miklós Zrínyi's Siege of Sziget and appeared in Dostoyevsky books, in his subliminar psyche, as one of the three Erinyes, and also in Handel's Rinaldo HWV 7 in the Aria "Sibillar gli angui d'Aletto".

Andrey Yuryevich Tatarinov

December 4 after the polls closed on election to the State Duma art community organized on the Blue Bridge Saint Isaac's Square street theater performance "Antibes", based on the novel "The Possessed" by Dostoyevsky and supported by Sergei Bugaev Afrika and the Faculty of Arts of Saint Petersburg State University (Dean — Valery Gergiev).

Bard High School Early College

BHSEC's college program offers classes that are more specialized than in the high school program, such as Linear Algebra, Reason and Politics, Novels of Dostoyevsky, Philosophy of Religion, Physics of Sound and Music, The Social Contract and Its Critics, and Culture and History of Food.

Boardman Robinson

Robinson also illustrated several books, among these are editions of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1933), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1941), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1942).

Borisav Stanković

These Serbian prose writers showed many traits in common with the Russians, particularly with Dostoyevsky (Borisav Stanković), and to a certain extent also with Maxim Gorky (Ivo Čipiko and Petar Kočić).

Buzz Goodbody

-- In the English university system, you don't 'Major'. --> she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground as part of her Honours Thesis.

Derwent Hall Caine

These were The Deemster (which had been written by his father), a version of Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, and the propaganda film Huns at our gate.

Dostoyevskaya

Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, second daughter of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anna Snitkina

Fedor Bondarchuk

In 2001 Fedor played the role of Count Myshkin in Down House, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot.

Notes from the Underground

Notes from Underground, sometimes translated as Notes from the Underground, an 1864 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Réaumur scale

The Réaumur scale saw widespread use in Europe, particularly in France and Germany as well as Russia, as referenced in works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov.

Robert Sikoryak

Under the series title Masterpiece Comics, these include Crime and Punishment rendered in Bob Kane–era Batman style, becoming Dostoyevsky Comics, starring Raskol; and Waiting for Godot mixed with Beavis and Butt-Head, becoming Waiting to Go.

Small College

The course of the Small College mainly consists of the so-called classics; Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Arendt, Dostoyevsky, and so forth.

Spiritual direction

They also inspired the figure of Zosima in Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

The Raw Youth

Ronald Hingley, author of Russians and Society and a specialist in Dostoyevsky's works, named this novel a bad one, whereas Richard Pevear (in the introduction to his and Larissa Volokhonsky's 2003 translation of the novel), vehemently defended its worth in spite of those who have deemed the work a failure.

Władysław Broniewski

He has been also a talented translator of poetry and prose translating, among others, Dostoyevsky, Yesenin, Mayakovsky and Brecht.

Wonderloch Kellerland

The name relates to Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground (German: “Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch”) and Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.


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