Fyodor Dostoevsky is believed to be one of the most brilliant Russian authors. He wrote many fiction novels, journals, and short stories. Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, by 1839 both of his parents had died and a few years later he dedicated himself to writing. He was arrested five years later in 1849 and imprisoned in Siberia. He spent four years in hard labor and four years as a soldier in Semipalatinsk and in 1854 he returned to St. Petersburg as a writer. Dostoevsky died in 1881. Almost all Russian authors have been influenced by the poet, Alexander Pushkin who was also born in Moscow in 1799 and died 37 years later after being forced into a duel. From 1811 to 1817, he received the best education in Russia at the Lyceum, an institution