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In the 1860s, the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, spent a good deal of time in Germany, as many Russians did during that period. A compulsive gambler, he lost everything in the opulent spa ...

It is easy to generalize about the main characters in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” Alyosha, the youngest, is gentle and faithful. Ivan, the middle one, is brilliant and ...