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Originally Posted by king_buzzo
yes, cause thats the year we live in
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king_buzzo, Dostoyevsky is important even today because both before and after his release from exile in Siberian labor camp, he settled in St. Petersburg. Why does this matter? St. Petersburg was the first major city in Russia to experiment with democracy and free enterprise under Czarist Russia. Russia was going through tremendous growing pangs during his lifetime, with many leaders and intellectuals having differing opinions. Dostoyevesky's fiction deals with all the existential, societal and political issues of a free society in an archetypal way, before modern life has endlessly jumbled and confused these matters and his characters often embody the varied ideological points of view concerning the proper course for the future of Russia.