Fyodor Dostoevsky quiz
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What was the only book allowed in Dostoevsky's Siberian prison?
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Which novel was Dostoevsky's last?
Answer: The Brothers Karamazov
Why: He died in February 1881, less than four months after the novel finished its magazine run.
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Who actually kills the father in The Brothers Karamazov?
Answer: Smerdyakov
Why: Smerdyakov, the household cook, is rumoured to be the old man's illegitimate son.
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Which TV detective was partly modelled on Porfiry Petrovich?
Answer: Columbo
Why: Peter Falk played the rumpled lieutenant for 35 years, from 1968 to 2003.
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Which poet was the subject of Dostoevsky's 1880 Moscow speech?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
Why: The speech marked the unveiling of Opekushin's bronze Pushkin, which still stands on Moscow's Pushkin Square.
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What job did Dostoevsky's second wife have when they met?
Answer: A stenographer
Why: She later became his publisher too, issuing his books herself from 1873, starting with Demons.
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In which country today did Dostoevsky serve as a soldier after prison?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Why: Semipalatinsk, now Semey, is also where he met his first wife, Maria Isaeva.
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