Igor Volgin is a historian, poet, researcher of Russian literature, founder and president of the Dostoevsky Foundation. His books, translated into many foreign languages, marked a new turn in the world’s historical and biographical prose. In “The Last Year of Dostoevsky,” the fate of the creator of “The Brothers Karamazov” is for the first time correlated with the fateful moments of Russia, with the bloody finale of the reign of Alexander II. The unique discoveries made by Igor Volgin make it possible to comprehend the drama of Dostoevsky’s life and death, including the secret of his departure.