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Prominent friends introduced him at court; the emperor Alexander II asked him to be the spiritual guide of his younger sons, the Grand Dukes Sergei and Pavel;
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
three decades earlier, however, on April 23, 1849, Dostoevsky had been arrested along with other members of a secret utopian society and sentenced to death. The emperor Nikolai I, father of Alexander II, changed the sentence but ordered that the reprieve be announced only at the last minute. After eight months in the Petropavlovsky Fortress,
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
precisely the type of man who is not only worthless and depraved but muddleheaded as well—one of those muddleheaded people who still handle their own little business deals quite skillfully, if nothing else.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero?
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero?