5/28/2023 0 Comments Pushkin and the queen of spades![]() The Russian novelist was also fascinated by the writings of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, and Diderot. Dostoevsky was a devoted reader who spoke highly of Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, and Leo Tolstoy. He said he admired the novel ‘Oblomov’ by Ivan Goncharov, and would strongly recommend reading Leo Tolstoy's ‘War and Peace’. ![]() READ MORE: 5 reasons why Dostoevsky is SO greatĭostoevsky often mentioned his favorite authors in his letters and notes. The man behind ‘The Idiot’ introduced them to the Bible through a book that he himself first read as a boy – ‘One hundred and twenty-four stories from the Old and New Testaments.’ Just like his father, Fyodor Dostoevsky read the Russian and European classics aloud to his children. There was a tradition of public book readings in Dostoevsky’s family. It’s a two-way street, and Dostoevsky had his own literary preferences as a writer just as well. ![]() ![]() Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky, by Konstantin Vasilyev. ![]()
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