Tuósītuǒyēfūsījī niánqīng shí bèi pàn le sǐxíng, zài xíngchǎng shàng cái dédào shèmiǎn.
As a young man Dostoevsky was sentenced to death, and was pardoned only at the place of execution.
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culture
His great novels include 《罪与罚》, Crime and Punishment, 《白痴》, The Idiot, and 《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》, The Brothers Karamazov. Chinese readers often shorten the long name to 陀氏.
history
Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a radical reading circle, he was led out to be shot, then told at the last moment that the tsar had spared him. He spent four years at hard labour in Siberia, and that experience runs through his later books.
