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American researcher Robert Jackson named Dostoevsky as "Icon of Self-awareness." When you read Dostoevsky's novels, you feel he is a person who has understood the secrets of existence with such depth and penetration as if you are in a temple, standing before an icon during prayer. But if you see in the themes of iconography and faces the transformed reality illuminated by the light of the world, in Dostoevsky's novels you realize the divine essence of creation imprinted in the body of earthly appearance. It seems that human thought has reached its maximum within itself and appeared in a post-maximum world... And it seems that someone has stopped the hand of the great writer and did not leave him the space to finish the last novel, disturbing him with a tremendous prophetic force. And this was the utmost humans are allowed to do. Thanks to Dostoevsky, humans have been able to learn many things about themselves, and what is the thing they were not yet ready to realize — this is what Valentin Rasputin wrote after a hundred years. Dostoevsky's character evokes interest with this amount of grandeur as much as his creativity does. The life history of this man cannot be fully comprehended by the mind. During sixty years, he suffered as much as the Dostoevsky generation suffered over five hundred years (including the violent twentieth century). Sometimes it seems that fate played with him in all variations of human autobiographies, conscious and unconscious. Take any subject at random, and you will likely find it present, in one way or another, in Dostoevsky's life. Even today, Dostoevsky remains the character through which God presented mysteries; here, the shores meet, all contradictions coexist... Here, Satan fights with God, and the battlefield is the human heart.