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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born on October 30, 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children born to Maria Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya, a merchant's daughter, and Mikhail Andreyevich Dostoevsky, a military doctor. Dostoevsky's father was an alcoholic and abusive man, and his mother died when he was only 15 years old.