Dostoevsky suffered many mishaps in his life. In his early years, he was diagnosed epilepsy, which exhausted him. He was a man of integrity and honest, yet he was obsessed with gambling and was melancholy and suspicious. He yearned for a happy family, but instead faces setbacks in relationships and marriages... The conflicts in Dostoevsky did not take away even a tiny bit of his charisma of himself as a writer and his work. This book uses both words and pictures to illustrate his life as a great writer who was equipped with profound humanitarianism.