বায়োগ্রাফি: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was borne to Dr. Fyodor and Maria Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and raised in their family home on the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor which influenced his writing greatly. He had a lifelong gambling problem contrary to his strong Orthodox Christian faith. He was sent to serve four years of exile with hard labour at a katorga prison camp in Omsk, Siberia for reading and circulating copies of the works by Belinsky, including the banned Letter to Gogol, reducing his death sentence. At the age of 12, he was sent to school in Moscow and later at Saint Petersburg. The first two parts of Crime and Punishment were published in January and February 1866 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Themes include dreaming, first seen in "White Nights", and the father-son relationship, beginning in The Adolescence. Most of his works demonstrate a vision of the chaotic sociopolitical structure of then-contemporary Russia.