A biography. An insightful look into the life, work, and passions of the Great Sinner, who with his work left a mark not only on the literature of his homeland but on the world as a whole.

The body of the years of the great writer's life unfolds through the pages of the narrative by Leonid Grossman, the man who knew closely all those who were in the circle of F. M. Dostoevsky. From one page to the next, the writer, along with the reader, follows the path of the man who conversed with the Grand Inquisitor, who mingled with the Divine Infant, who played at roulette depleting the cursed reserve of life, who sank into human passions, and who with surgical precision recorded the underlying explosiveness of the human soul, there in the house of the dead.

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