Malcolm Muggeridge explores the relationship between Fyodor Dostoevsky's life and his novels, taking in many of the places and events which influenced his major works. Dostoyevsky born 1821 in Moscow, Russia, 1881, in St. Petersburg, was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.—Britannica