In 1861 he began the review Vremya (Time) with his brother in 18 he went abroad, where he strengthened his anti-European outlook, met Mlle Suslova, who was the model for many of his heroines, and gave way to his passion for gambling. Whereas the latter draws heavily on his experiences in prison, the former inhabits a completely different world, shot through with comedy and satire. In the decade following his return from exile he wrote The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859) and The House of the Dead (1860). In 1849 he was arrested and sentenced to death for participating in the 'Petrashevsky circle' he was reprieved at the last moment but sentenced to penal servitude, and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison at Omsk, Siberia. His first story to be published, 'Poor Folk' (1846), was a great success. When he left his private boarding school in Moscow he studied from 1838 to 1843 at the Military Engineering College in St Petersburg, graduating with officer's rank. His mother died in 1837 and his father was murdered a little over two years later. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children.
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