After years of financial straits caused by a gambling problem, Dostoevsky began in 1866 the composition of novels- The Gambler, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov-on which his reputation now rests. Accused of publishing materials critiquing the government, Dostoevsky was exiled to Siberia for five years, beginning in 1849, and his experiences there informed his character Raskolnikov’s exile in his novel Crime and Punishment. He also showed signs of epilepsy, greatly interrupting his professional and personal life. Dostoevsky began a career as an engineer and, in his free time, wrote and translated.
His mother died of tuberculosis when Dostoevsky was a young man. While he was there, it is believed his father was killed by serfs on his own plantation.
A sickly but intelligent child, Dostoevsky was sent to a military engineering academy, which he hated.
His father Mikhail was a military doctor who later secured a government position and an acquired rank of nobility. One of eight children, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born to a family lineage of middle-class businessmen and petty nobles.
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