A biography. An insightful look into the life, work, and passions of the Great Sinner, whose work left a mark not only on the literature of his homeland but also on the entire world.

The timeline of the great author's life unfolds through the pages of the narrative by Leonid Grossman, the man who personally knew all those in the environment of F. M. Dostoevsky.

From one page to the next, the author, along with the reader, follows the path of the man who conversed with the Grand Inquisitor, who associated with the Divine Infant, who played at roulette exhausting the cursed reserve of life, who immersed himself in human passions and with surgical precision recorded the underlying explosiveness of the human soul, right there in the house of the dead.

A biography, a journey through the dizzying silence and the deafening screams of F. M. Dostoevsky, the man who forever changed the course of literature with his work.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]