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Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Romanovs: A Writer's Trial
Before he was Russia's greatest novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad, blindfolded, waiting for the volley that would end his life. At the last second, the sentence was commuted to four years of hard labor in Siberia. This episode of the Romanov Dynasty podcast explores the fraught relationship between the writer and the imperial family. We examine the Petrashevsky Circle, the mock execution on Semyonovsky Square, and the ten years Dostoevsky spent in Omsk and Semipalatinsk. We trace his return to St. Petersburg under Tsar Alexander II, his editorship of the journals…
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