Abstract
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) returned to St. Petersburg, after nine years of imprisonment and exile in Siberia for his involvement in the revolutionary Petrashevsky circle, convinced that Russia’s true identity lay with the peasants he had grown to understand and love in exile, rather than with the westernizing Russian intellectuals. Russia, he thought, should realize its own greatness rather than follow Europe’s. This meant embracing Russian Orthodoxy and autocracy rather than Roman Catholicism and European socialism, both of which he would reject vehemently inThe Brothers Karamazov.1
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