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Nor is the reason for the paling of all these renowned but less effectual fires far to seek.
The briefest summary of the facts of Dostoevsky’s life will show us whence, apart from any possibly innate difference of gifts, his superiority was inevitably bound to flow. 1821 Born in a hospital for the poor in Moscow, the son of a resident surgeon. 1844 Wrote his first novel, Poor Folk. April 1849. Arrested with forty-three others for belonging to what would pass in this country as a daring debating society on socialistic and kindred ideas, and condemned to death. December 1849. With nineteen others, stripped to their shirts on a scaffold in the Semyonovski Square. The sentence having been read out, the cross presented to each man to kiss, the first batch of three having been fastened to poles blind- folded and the order given to load-an officer suddenly dashed up with a reprieve and a commutation of the sentence to imprisonment in Siberia. One of the three men tied up had lost his reason.
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