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Those with a Gilbert AZ IRS Problem<\/h1>\n

Let us review a few quotes from the famous Russian novelist and see how they might apply to your Gilbert AZ IRS problem.<\/p>\n

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But first let us share a brief biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky.<\/p>\n

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Fyodor Dostoevsky is renowned as one of the world\u2019s greatest novelists and literary psychologists.\u00a0 Born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a doctor, Dostoevsky was educated first at home and then at a boarding school.\u00a0 When he was a young boy, his father sent him to the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering, from which he graduated in 1843.\u00a0 Dostoevsky had long been interested in writing and he immediately resigned from his position in the military to devote himself to writing.<\/p>\n

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Dostoevsky\u2019s early view of the world was shaped by his experience with social injustice.\u00a0 At the age of twenty-six, Dostoevsky became active in socialist circles, largely because of his opposition to the institution of serfdom.\u00a0 His political opinions were influenced by his experiences as a young boy\u2014his father was murdered by his own serfs while Dostoevsky was away at school.\u00a0 Another experience that greatly affected Dostoevsky, and found its way into his writing, was the time he spent in prison.<\/p>\n

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Dostoevsky wrote with genuine compassion for the poor.\u00a0 Rather than just exhorting the rich and powerful to do something for those humiliated by poverty, oppression, and insult, he endeavored to find some shred of dignity in them and revealed their inner worth.\u00a0 Yet even as he made himself the novelist of the poor and the insulted, he had to fight his own battles against debt and oppression.<\/p>\n

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In 1846, Dostoevsky found himself in debt to an unscrupulous publisher and just three years later, he was arrested for working with a group that planned to publish illegal articles calling for political reform.\u00a0 In the middle of the 19th<\/sup> century, Russia was ruled by the reactionary Nicholas the First, who had crushed an uprising against him on his very first day as Tsar in December 1825 and thereafter set out to silence every voice of dissent.<\/p>\n

On April 23, 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested for his participation in a group that illegally printed and distributed socialist propaganda.\u00a0 After spending eight months in prison, Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for membership in the group and was led, with other members of the group, to be shot.\u00a0 But the execution turned out to be a mere show, meant to punish the prisoners psychologically.\u00a0 Just as he and others were to be shot, a horseman rode up at the last second with a reprieve from the Czar.\u00a0 Dostoevsky then spent four years at a labor camp in Siberia, followed by four years of forced military service.<\/p>\n

Dostoevsky never forgot his four years in a Siberian prison.\u00a0 He never forgot the filth, stench, chains, cockroaches and the loathing he endured from his \u201clowborn\u201d fellow convicts.\u00a0 But prison became the crucible in which Dostoevsky re-forged his own soul.\u00a0 Almost miraculously, he emerged from it with a renewed faith in the teachings of Christ and the value of common people\u2014even convicts.\u00a0 He was released from prison in 1854.<\/p>\n

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In 1857, Dostoevsky married Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva.\u00a0 In 1859, he returned to St. Petersburg a full 10 years after he left it.\u00a0 There he launched a new journal with his brother Mikhail and published a book about his ordeal in Siberia.\u00a0 By 1865 he had reached the height of his powers and needed all the internal strength he could muster.\u00a0 He was faced with the death of his brother and of his own tubercular wife whom he had married seven years before.\u00a0 During this time he struggled with poverty, epilepsy, and an addiction to gambling.<\/p>\n

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In 1867, he married a second time to Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, who helped him with his medical challenges and served as his stenographer for his novel, The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>, which is one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, and remains the capstone of Dostoevsky\u2019s achievement today.\u00a0 Dostoevsky died in 1881, only a year after The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> was published.<\/p>\n

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The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> is Dostoevsky\u2019s deepest and most complex examination of crucial philosophical questions dealing with the human condition.\u00a0 In it, he addresses the conflict between faith and doubt, the problem of free will, and the question of moral responsibility.<\/p>\n

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Dostoevsky Quotes<\/p>\n

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