Synonyms:
Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski, Dostoevsky, Feodor_Dostoyevsky, Fyodor_Dostoyevsky, Feodor_Dostoevski, Fyodor_Dostoevski, Feodor_Dostoevsky, Fyodor_Dostoevsky, Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoyevsky, Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoyevsky, Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevski, Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevski, Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevsky, Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevsky
Meaning: Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Usage examples
It would be foolish, I know, to pretend to sum up Dostoevsky as a contortionist; but he has that element in him.
One can guess exactly the frame of mind he was in when, in the course of an argument with Dostoevsky, he said: "You see, I consider myself a German."