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 White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1848, early in the writer’s career. The story tells about unfortunate young man who is lonely and shy. He strolls the streets of 1840s Saint Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears.  

Dostoevsky tells the story of a young tutor named Alexey Ivanovitch, who works in the household of an imperious Russian general. He wants to break through the wall of the established order in Russia. To reach this goal, he tries to achieve money and power by gambling. He descends further and further into a life of roulettes and casino living and sinks himself in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss.  As he fails to resist the temptations of his addiction (the gambling), he finds himself engaged in unrequited love with Polina, the General's cruel yet seductive niece.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "A Faint Heart" (1848) is a short story about two close friends, Arkady Ivanovitch Nefedevitch and Vasya Shumkov. After a lengthy rumination on their names, Dostoevsky recounts the tale of how one of them is so overwhelmed by his good fortunate and happiness that he becomes consumed by it. The prospect of marrying his sweetheart brings him such euphoric joy that he experiences a masochistic transformation because the world wasn’t equally happy. So he ends up in an institution and his bride-to-be marries another. 

In the district town of Mordasov arrives rich and elderly Prince K. About him, the townspeople have always speculated; people even say that the old man is mad. In any case, he constantly confuses dreams with reality, which creates many humerous - and sometimes dramatic - situations.

Fyodor Dostoevesky's Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, anticipated a series of psychological novels exploring the nature of good and evil. In this loose adaptation, set in the mid-20th century, Trevor Howard plays Dr. John Farington, an eminent and respected psychiatrist who harbours a guilty secret.

The Gambler brilliantly captures the strangely powerful compulsion to bet that Dostoevsky, himself a compulsive gambler, knew so well. The hero rides an emotional roller coaster between exhilaration and despair, and secondary characters such as the grandmother, who throws much of her fortune away at the gaming tables, are unforgettable.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Inspector General’, adapted from the original tale by Nikolai Gogol and Trevor Howard starring in 'Judgment' adapted from the original tale by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on 20th-century literature. His psychological penetration into the human soul had, in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, a profound influence on the 20th century novel. He also wrote a number of brilliant short stories along these same lines. "The Wedding" is one of his best.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This second wide-ranging collection of 19th-century literary masterworks, presented in their entirety, not only entertains, but provides insight into 19th-century mores and the mysteries of human nature.

Povest' Fyodora Mihaylovicha Dostoevskogo "Dyadyushkin son" zanimaet osoboe i pochetnoe mesto v russkoy literature. Ona yavlyaetsya prologom k takim shedevram pisatelya, kak "Idiot", "Brat'ya Karamazovy" ili "Prestuplenie i nakazanie". Povest' byla opublikovana v Sankt-Peterburge v 1859 godu vmeste s povest'yu "Selo Stepanchikovo i ego obitateli", posle vozvrashcheniya F. M. Dostoevskogo posle katorgi, otbytiya voinskoy povinnosti i ssylki. "Dyadyushkin son" - anekdotichnaya i grustnaya istoriya o tom, kak starogo knyazya edva ne naduli s zhenit'boy na "krasavice iz krasavic" mordasovskogo zaholust'ya.

"Brat'ya Karamazovy" - posledniy roman Dostoevskogo, kotoryy avtor pisal dva goda. Roman zadumyvalsya kak pervaya chast' ehpicheskogo proizvedeniya "Istoriya Velikogo greshnika". Proizvedenie bylo okoncheno v noyabre 1880 goda. Roman "Brat'ya Karamazovy" vklyuchaet v sebya slozhnuyu, otlichno vystroennuyu i psihologicheski vyverennuyu detektivnuyu istoriyu, pri ehtom v kanve detektivnogo syuzheta obyknovennoe (na pervyy vzglyad) ugolovnoe proisshestvie ne tol'ko spletaetsya s istoriey lyubovnogo sopernichestva, no i vstraivaetsya v obshchuyu kartinu sovremennogo Dostoevskomu obshchestva.

Neizvestnyy rasskazchik povestvuet o tom, chto ego obychno sderzhannaya i molchalivaya kuharka Agrafena nastoychivo poprosila kak-to svoego hozyaina pustit' v dom odnogo zhil'ca iz "byvalyh lyudey": otstavnogo soldata Astafiya Ivanovicha. Hozyain soglasilsya, i vot odnazhdy v otsutstvie Agrafeny i Astafiya Ivanovicha, no v prisutstvie hozyaina-rasskazchika v dom pronik vor i unyos hozyayskuyu bekeshu. Uznav ob ehtom, vernuvshiysya Astafiy Ivanovich ves'ma ogorchilsya i pobezhal vdogonku za zhulikom, no, vernuvshis' s pustymi rukami, rasskazal istoriyu o "chestnom vore", kotoraya proizoshla za dva goda do ehtogo s nim samim.

Rasskaz "CHuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovat'yu" rodilsya iz dvuh samostoyatel'nyh proizvedeniy: "CHuzhaya zhena" i "Revnivyy muzh". Podgotavlivaya v 1859 godu dvuhtomnoe sobranie sochineniy, pisatel' ob"edinil oba rasskaza v odin - "CHuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovat'yu". V pervoy chasti byli lish' neznachitel'no izmeneny otdel'nye repliki, vtoraya zhe chast' izmenena sushchestvenno. V svoy rasskaz Dostoevskiy perenes nekotorye priemy vodevil'nogo zhanra, v chastnosti postroenie dialogov, izobiluyushchih kalamburami.

Povest' byla sozdana pisatelem v sentyabre-noyabre 1848 goda. Povest' nosit podzagolovok "Sentimental'nyy roman. Iz vospominaniy mechtatelya". Proizvedenie sostoit iz shesti glav: "Noch' pervaya", "Noch' vtoraya", "Istoriya Nasten'ki", "Noch' tret'ya", "Noch' chetvyortaya", "Utro". Geroy povesti - mechtatel', odinokiy i robkiy chelovek. Beloy noch'yu mechtatel' sluchayno znakomitsya s devushkoy Nasten'koy. On vlyublyaetsya v neyo, a ona vidit v nyom rodnuyu dushu, brata. Nasten'ka rasskazyvaet emu pro svoyu zhizn'. Vse svoi rannie gody ona prozhila vmeste so svoey slepoy babushkoy, popav k ney posle smerti roditeley. ZHizn' Nasten'ki byla odnoobraznoy i nevesyoloy.

Netochka Nezvanova - povest' Fyodora Mihaylovicha Dostoevskogo. Neokonchennyy roman (1848-1849). "Netochka Nezvanova" - ehto "lichnyy" rasskaz geroini o svoey zhizni. Povestvovanie preryvaetsya na dramaticheskom ehpizode ee ranney yunosti. Roman raspadaetsya na tri samostoyatel'nye povesti, vneshne spayannye lichnost'yu rasskazchicy.

Roman napisan ot lica molodogo pisatelya Vani, mnogie podrobnosti zhizni kotorogo avtobiografichny. Vanya vospityvalsya v sem'e bednogo pomeshchika Ihmenyova, vmeste s ego docher'yu Natashey. Bolee sostoyatel'nyy sosed Ihmenyova po usad'be, knyaz' Valkovskiy, oceniv hozyaystvennost' Ihmenyova, naznachaet ego svoim upravlyayushchim, a pozdnee i prosit ego nekotoroe vremya rukovodit' vospitaniem svoego syna Alyoshi.

By the time Dostoevsky was 40, he had spent four years in prison and a further four years in the army as punishment for his part in a political conspiracy. His health was broken. He was gaunt, fervid, anxiety-ridden, and close to bankruptcy. It was in this state he wrote Notes from the Underground, a masterpiece of the psychology of theoutsider.

The novel is a profound exploration of imitative rivalry and the duality of human consciousness. Told from the point of view of a rich and idle man who is confronted by a rival, the husband of his former, and now deceased, mistress, the story concerns the interchanging hatred and love of the two men.

The House of the Dead is a fascinating portrait of life in a Siberian prison camp - a life of great hardship and deprivation, yet filled with simple moments of humanity showing mankinds ability to adapt and survive in the most extreme of circumstances. Dostoevsky tells his story in a chronological order, from his character's arrival and his sense of alienation to his gradual adjustment to prison life.

Written as a series of letters, Poor People tells the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads him only into more desperate poverty, and ultimately into debauchery. As a typical "man of the underground", he serves as the embodiment of the belief that happiness can only be achieved with riches.