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Russian novelist (1821–1881)

Also known as: Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Doestoevsky, Dostoievski, F.M. Dostoiewski, Fëdor Mihajlovič Dostoevskij, Fjodor Dostojewski

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