Dostoevsky as a mental tutor

November 13, 2021

November 11 this week marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Russian literature of the mid-19th to the early-20th century is a scattering of precious stones—Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov are well known throughout the world. And if you add the equally beautiful but more Russian-speaking Turgenev, Salt…