- Born
- 11 November 1821, 30 October 1821, 1821
- Died
- 28 January 1881, 9 February 1881, 1881
- contributed to creative work
- Chorty
- date of burial or cremation
- 31 January 1881, 2 February 1881
- described by source
- Larousse Encyclopedia online, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Albert Edelfelt's letters, Russian Writers: XIX c. Tome 1, Faces of Moscow
- end of work period
- 1880
- influenced by
- Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Solovyov, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, Adam Mickiewicz, Immanuel Kant, William Shakespeare, Honoré de Balzac, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Russian
- name in native language
- Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
- pseudonym
- Д., Друг Кузьмы Пруткова, Зубоскал, —ий, М., Летописец, М-ий, Н. Н., Пружинин, Зубоскалов, Ред., Ф. Д.
- start of work period
- 1844