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5 unusual facts about The Brothers Karamazov


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).

Eduard Nápravník

"Mr. Napravnik is our well-known Russian orchestra conductor" (Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880), book 2, chapter 2).

Lowell Lee Andrews

Jennie Marie was watching television with her parents while Andrews was upstairs reading The Brothers Karamazov.

Spiritual direction

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

Stinking Lizaveta

The band gets its name from a character in the 1880 Russian novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.


Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

In the 1930s, Twardowski directed and appeared in the stage productions of The Brothers Karamazov and Old Heidelberg in the Pasadena Playhouse.

Mikhail Rojter

Dostoevsky was always his favourite, and Rojter illustrated such works as “Netochka Nezvanova”, “A Gentle Creature”, “The Brothers Karamazov”, and “The Possessed”.

Robert C. Schnitzer

While a young actor in New York City, Schnitzer appeared in or helped manage The Brothers Karamazov, Hamlet, An Enemy of the People, Richelieu, Henry V, Richard III, Caponsacchi, Macbeth, and Cyrano de Bergerac.


see also

Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood

In Atheism and the Rejection of God: Contemporary Philosophy and "The Brothers Karamazov" (1977) and Faith and Ambiguity (1984), he explored continental thinkers including Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Camus and Weil.