A Russian court had sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky…

December 1849 CE

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.

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