A Russian court had sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky …
Years: 1849 - 1849
December
A Russian court had sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death, for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle, on November 16, 849.
Facing a firing squad on December 23, the group members are reprieved at the last moment, and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.
