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Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov (Russian: Фёдор Павлович Карамазов) is a fictional character from the 1879–1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is the father of Alexei , Ivan, and Dmitri Karamazov, and rumoured also to be the father of his house servant Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov.
Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality. It has also been described as a theological drama [ 1 ] dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide .
"The Grand Inquisitor" is a story within a story (called a poem by its fictional author) contained within Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, during a conversation with his brother Alexei, a novice monk, about the possibility of a personal and benevolent God.
The Decembrist Revolt (Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized: Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.
Crime and Punishment [a] is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. [1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.
Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Карама́зов) is a fictional character from the 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Ivan is 24 years old at the start of the novel; he is the elder brother of Alyosha Karamazov, younger brother of Dmitri Karamazov, and the son of Fyodor Karamazov.
Netochka Nezvanova (Russian: Не́точка Незва́нова) is an unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. [1] It was originally intended as a large scale work in the form of a 'confession', however the only part completed and published is a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence.
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы, translit. Bratya Karamazovy) is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. It is based on the 1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [1]