Short answers, pulled from the story.
Fyodor Dostoevsky faced a mock execution on the 23rd of December 1849 in Semyonov Place in Saint Petersburg. The Tsar commuted his death sentence at the last moment, but the psychological trauma from this event defined his life and work.
Fyodor Dostoevsky served his four-year sentence of hard labor in the Siberian prison camp of Omsk starting in the winter of 1850. He lived in brutal conditions with over two hundred people sharing a single bathroom while shackled by his hands and feet.
Fyodor Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkina on the 14th of February 1867, and their marriage lasted over four years. Their relationship was marked by financial ruin and emotional turmoil due to his severe gambling addiction in Baden-Baden.
Fyodor Dostoevsky completed The Idiot in the spring of 1868, writing the first one hundred pages in only twenty-three days. The novel features Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin as a protagonist whose goodness threatens the corrupt society around him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky delivered his famous speech at the unveiling of the Pushkin memorial in Moscow on the 8th of June 1880. The speech called for the unity of the Russian people and the restoration of their spiritual values.
Fyodor Dostoevsky died on the 9th of February 1881 after suffering pulmonary hemorrhages. He was interred in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Convent near his favorite poets.