'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography'–Douglas Smith, author ofRasputin: The Biography'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book'– Sue Prideaux, author ofI Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich NietzscheDostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the