When my children come out into the street badly dressed, it hurts me When street urchins throw stones at them from behind a corner, I suffer. When a surgeon approaches them with forceps or a knife, I think I would prefer that he cut my own body.

My children are my books: I have no others.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, while a book explodes a thousand times.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day when the first book was written. The ape has not forgotten it to this day: try and give it a book will immediately spoil it, tear it up, befoul it.

23 December 1928

THE QUOTATION IS FROM EVGENY ZAMYATIN, AUTHOR OF WE

1819   Dostoevsky's father, Michael Dostoevsky, marries Marie Nechaeva.

1820   First son, Michael, born.

1821   Father Becomes Doctor in Hospital for the poor, Moscow. October 30, Fyodor
    Mikhailovich born.

1837   January 29 Poet Pushkin killed in a duel.
   February 27 Dostoevsky's mother dies.
   May, the two brothers move to Petersburg.
   July, the father retires and moves to the country with the two    youngest brothers.

1839   January, Dostoevsky enters military Engineering School
   June, Dostoevsky's father is murdered by his serf peasants because of his cruelty and strictness.

1842   August, Dostoevsky commisioned Second Lieutenant.

1844   August, he leaves the military service, begins literary career. Starts writing The Poor Folk.

1845   Summer, The Poor Folk is greatsuccess with literary leaders.

1846   Spring, Dostoevsky meets Petrashevasky. Begin suffer epileptic seizures. Publishes The   Double.

1848   Participates more and more in political discussions of Petrashevsky's article.

1849   April 23, Dostoevsky arrested. Later sentenced to death.
   reprived at last minute, on execution scaffold in petersburg square.

1850-54   Spends four years as convict in siberia, in Omsk. 1854-59   Serves as common soldeir in siberia, in Semipacatinsk. 1857   February, marries Maria Isaeva. 1859   Is permitted to live in Tver, Later, in St.Petersberg.    Resumes writing. Two of his stories are published. 1860   Publishes The House of the Dead about his  Siberian experiences.    A two-volume edition of his works appears.

1861   Emancipation of Serfs Proclamation. The insulted and The Injured published.

1862   Visit to France and England.

1862-63   Liasion with Apollinaria Suslova.

1860-63   Writes for and edits magazine"Time"(Vremya).

1863   May, "Time" stopped by the government.
   August-October, stays in France and Italy.

1864   January, permitted to publish new magazine, "Epoch"(Epokha).
   April, his wife dies.
   June, "Epoch" stops because of lack of funds.
   July, his brother dies.
   Visits Germany. Sees Suslova. Works on Crime and Punishment.
   Two Volume edition of his works published by stellovsky.

1866   Works on crime and Punishment. Proposes to and is accepted by Anna Gregorievna   Snitkina. Further volumes of his works published.

1867   Stays in Germany; gambles. Works on The idiot.

1868-69   Lives abroad- in Germany and Switzerland.

1871   Returns to Petersburg. Works on The Possessed. The Possessed published in The Russian
   Messenger.

1873-76   Dostoevsky collaborates on magazine THE CITIZEN. Writes The Raw Youth.
  Lives in Staraya Russia and visits Germany three times.

1875   The Raw Youth published.

1876-77   Publishes magazine "Writer's Diary".

1876   November, writes story The Gentle Spirit.

1878   May, Dostoevsky's three-year old son Alexy dies of epilepsy.
   Dostoevsky philosopher Vladimir Solovyov visit topether the Optina    monastery. Begins work   on The Brothers Karmazov.

1879   The Brothers Karmazov begins to appears.

1880   June 8, Dostoevsky delivers widely acclaimed speech at the dedication of Pushkin's statue.
   Concludes work on The Brothers Karmazov.

1881   January 28, Dostoevsky dies after three days of illness, of Lung-Hamorrhages.

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