![]() ![]() And yet, his insights into the human heart-perhaps because his own heart was so troubled-remain some of the most profound in literature. Though a devout Christian, he was never a good one though a brilliant writer, his works remain technically unpolished. The experience was perhaps the most dramatic but not the only crisis of Dostoyevsky's mercurial life. ![]() When the pardon was announced, two of the prisoners went permanently insane another went on to write Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov-two of the greatest novels in Western literature. Then a messenger burst upon this scene, saying the Tsar had decided to spare their lives (as it turned out, the mock execution had been part of his punishment). Fyodor Dostoyevksy, 29, watched as fellow prisoners were tied to a stake, readied to be shot. The sentence of death had been read, last rites offered. "If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth." ![]()
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