“It’s not like a boy that I believe in Christ and confess Him, but through a great crucible of doubts my hosanna has passed...” - such a confession can be read in the last notebook of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky... Isn’t it in these words of his that the key to understanding lies? the entire heritage of the writer? The collection that you have just revealed will take its place among those publications dedicated to the work and life of Dostoevsky, which show the writer’s Orthodox self-awareness as the foundation of his creations. It was Orthodox self-awareness that determined the outcome of his life’s journey: Dostoevsky’s meeting with Christ turned an ordinary terrorist into a great writer.