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Dostoyevski

Dostoevski \Dostoevski\, Dostoyevski \Dostoyevski\prop. n. Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.

Syn: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski.

Usage examples of "dostoyevski".

Who could resist the pleasure of dancing to the accompaniment of With my Baltic teacher I began to read Dostoyevski, Pushkin, and Tolstoy and was fascinated by the beauty and musical quality of the Russian language, which formed a harmony.

Rya noticed that there was no fiction here: gone were Dickens, Dostoyevski, Stevenson, and Poe.

Lindau was himself a romanticist of the Victor Hugo sort, but he said this fragment of Dostoyevski was good of its kind.

Shakespeare, Melville, Balzac, and Dostoyevski all wrote sensational fiction.