"Dostoevsky is what Russia is like, with all the darkness and light. And he is Russia's greatest contribution to the spiritual life of the whole world." These are the words of N. Berdyaev, but other researchers of the work of the great writer agree with them, who discovered in the soul of a person such abyss of good and evil that all previous world literature could not imagine. Dostoevsky's great works fully reflect his fate - the mysterious death of his father, years of poverty and spiritual quest, hard labor and a soldier for participating in a revolutionary circle, a difficult ascent to fame, which made him - both during his lifetime and posthumously - the object of both enthusiastic praise and fierce attacks. The details of the writer's life, up to the most unknown and "uncomfortable," are fully reflected in his new biography, owned by Lyudmila Saraskina, a famous literary historian, author of fifteen books dedicated to Dostoevsky and his contemporaries.