Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky Completed "The Idiot" In Florence And "Had A House In Piazza Pitti Where" He "Lived For About A Year Between 1868 And 1869." Dostoevsky's Child, Whom He And His Wife Anna Named Lubjov ('Love' In Russian), Was Born In Florence.
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"Dostoyevsky Spent Four Spa Breaks At Ems, And Wrote At Length About Them Both In His Letters To His Wife And In A Writer's Diary. It Was Here That He, According To Himself, Found The Leisure For Literary Work. In His Lodgings At The Stadt Algier Guesthouse He Wrote Parts Of His Novel "The Adolescent" In 1874, And Books 6 And 7 Of "The Brothers Karamazov" In 1879." (Nomination File, P. 205) Dostoevsky Also "Spent Five Weeks In Baden-Baden, Where [He] Had A Quarrel With Turgenev And Again Lost Much Money At The Roulette Table." (Wikipedia)

Dostoevsky's Parents Sent Him To The Free Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute In St. Petersburg, Which He Entered In January 1838. After His Arrest In 1849, Dostoevsky Was Imprisoned In The Peter And Paul Fortress. He Married Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina In Trinity Cathedral In 1867. His Grave Is In The Tikhvin Cemetery At The Alexander Nevsky Convent. (Wikipedia)