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Memoirs from the House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Jessie Coulson
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“During Dostoevsky’s lifetime, it was thought to be one of the most important books he’d written. Tolstoy didn’t have a huge amount of praise for his rivals, but when he read House of the Dead he said he ‘didn’t know a better book in all our literature.'” Read more...
The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books
Alex Christofi, Literary Scholar
Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky is written as fiction but is based on his time in a Siberian prison camp at Omsk. This is not a book about Kazakhstan, but we’ve included it because, on his release, Dostoevsky lived in exile (which included military service) in the Kazakh city of Semipalatinsk. You can visit one of the houses he lived in, which has been turned into a museum.
