Writers, year by year
Who they were, what they wrote and what was happening around them — every life laid out on a timeline, every book one click away.
Russia 1821 – 1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Достоевский
The novelist who turned the darkest corners of the human mind into literature.
15 key works in the timeline →
Russia 1828 – 1910
Leo Tolstoy
Лев Толстой
The novelist who mapped a whole society in War and Peace and Anna Karenina — and spent his last decades searching for how to live.
11 key works in the timeline →