The image of a brilliant creative personality always has enormous attractive power for both contemporaries and descendants. It is to such personalities that Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky belongs, who is put on a par with N. Gogol, l. Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, O. de Balzac. Dostoevsky was one of the greatest masters of words in the entire world history of literature. No one knew how to reveal a person’s soul like this, using all the techniques of artistic depiction. The classic of Russian literature of the 19th century and in the 21st remains one of the most read writers in the whole world: modern readers continue to discover new facets of his genius.