Lesson 4: A beginner's guide to Fyodor Dostoevsky & CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

On December 22, 1849, after eight months of a solitary confinement for a mild participation in a revolutionary group, Fyodor Dostoevsky is led to his execution.

He’s blindfolded and standing above a grave alongside another prisoner. The firing squad lined up behind him. Seconds before they expect to be executed, the guards tell the prisoners the tsar has granted them mercy via an exile to Siberia. The man alongside him is permanently traumatized, diagnosed and treated for insanity in the wake of...