"Many misfortunes have come into the world because of confusion and unsaid things", Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky was an accomplished Russian author with a style all his own. He lived a very hard life from his childhood in St. Petersburg. He spent his teenage years at a boarding school until he was sent to an army engineering academy with his older brothers. His young adult years were spent in a prison cell and serving in his country's military. His true art began when he was discharged from the army for the second time on March 18, 1859. Although much of his life was spent in the army and in prison, his true passion was writing. Dostoyevsky was one of the great authors of his time, with a style all his own and the most offbeat characters in modern literature. Shortly after his birth, on October 30, 1821, he was sent away from home. From the time he was sent to a boarding school as a young boy, until his mother's death, Fyodor lived a difficult and complicated life. His mother died on February 27, 1827, and a few years later his father sent him and his older brothers to a military engineering academy in St. Petersburg, his hometown. “My brothers and I were taken to St. Petersburg to the Engineering Academy and our future was ruined.” (Dostoevsky, His Life and Works 28) On June 8, 1839, his father was murdered while drunk by his peasant workers. (Dostoyevsky, his life and work 38) This is how his stay at the Academy of Military Engineering ends. From his childhood until his adolescence, Fyodor and his older brother Mikhail wanted to become great Russian authors. They were inspired by Pushkin, a man whose death they were never able to mourn because he died around the same time as their mother. Fyodor joined the Russian army and graduated as an army engineer and quickly rose through the ranks, then resigned as a lieutenant in October 1844 to pursue a career as a writer. (http://www.online-literature.com)He joined a group of utopian sociologists in 1846 and was imprisoned for his beliefs 1849.