Notes from a Dead House

In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. As a member of the nobility he had been despised by his fellow prisoners, most of whom were peasants - an experience shared in the book by Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman who has killed his wife.

In 1849, tanarul Fiodor Dostoievski a fost condamnat la patru ani de munca silnica intr-un lagar de prizonieri din Siberia pentru ca a sustinut socialismul. Ca membru al nobilimii, a fost dispretuit de colegii sai prizonieri, dintre care majoritatea erau tarani - o experienta impartasita in carte de Alexandru Petrovici Gorianchikov, un nobil care si-a ucis sotia.