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Works originally published in The Russian Messenger

  • Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky stood in a small room in Wiesbaden, Germany, during the summer of 1865. He owed large sums to creditors and needed money desperately to…
  • The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky began writing The Brothers Karamazov in April 1878, spending nearly two years crafting the novel. He published it as a serial in The…
  • War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, the year he married and settled at his country estate. He wrote to Elizabeth Bers asking for chronicles or…