A painful humorous story

On December 23, 1849, in Saint Petersburg, the young Dostoevsky and a group of thinkers were sentenced to death by firing squad. And before executing the sentence that Dostoevsky had waited for four months, and on the execution platform, a decree from the Tsar was issued to pardon the group and replace the death sentence with hard labor in the Siberian ice. You can imagine that a writer of the size and talent of Dostoevsky was standing on the execution platform waiting for the bullet that would end his life, facing death and looking into its eyes, and he waited for it for a long time, four months, followed by four years of hard service in the Siberian ice. And from the womb of suffering, despair, anticipation, and loss of hope in life, an unprecedented genius was born for a writer who was originally highly talented. So the final result was an authentic talent that history has not seen the like of. And in this exquisite novel… the writer delves into the psyche of a worker from the basic class of society, whom we encounter at least once a day, and places him in a conflict with his principles and the philosophy he adopts, which is based on treating those of lower social status with kindness and charity. But he quickly passes through a number of embarrassing situations that put him in front of the mirror, stripped of false slogans, revealing his psychological tendency that ultimately attracts him.