Fyodor Dostoevsky-Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism

Fyodor Dostoevsky—Darkness and Dawn (1848–1849), the third and final volume on the writer's childhood, adolescence, and youth, seeks to disclose, in a detailed and intimate way, Dostoevsky's last two years before his exile to Siberia. Together with the first two volumes, it attempts to present for the first time a complete and congruent picture of the writer's first twenty-eight years.

Thomas Gaiton Marullo first examines diverse responses of the Russian church, state, and citizens to the F...