“I took a sinless soul, but already polluted by the terrible possibility of depravity, early hatred for its insignificance and “accidentality...” In 1875, in the first issues of Otechestvennye Zapiski, Dostoevsky published his new novel “The Teenager.” The confession of Arkady Dolgoruky, a Teenager, analyzes the complex process of personality formation in an “ugly” world that has lost moral values, in an atmosphere of “general decay” and the collapse of the foundations of society... Instead of a preface, the reader is offered an essay by Stefan Zweig “Dostoevsky” from the book “Three Masters” , first published in 1919.