"Much unhappiness has come into the world through confusion and things left unsaid," Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky was an accomplished Russian author with a unique style. He has lived a very hard life since he was a boy in St. Petersburg. He lived his adolescence in a boarding school until he was sent to the Military Engineering Academy with his older brothers. His years as a young adult were spent in a prison cell and serving in his country's army. 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 many of his younger years in the army and prison, his true passion was writing. Dostoevsky was one of the greatest authors of his time, with a unique style and most uncommon characters in modern literature. It was not long after his birth on October 30, 1821, that he was sent away from home. From the time he was sent to boarding school as a boy, until his mother's death, Fyodor lived a challenging and complicated life. His mother died on February 27, 1827, and several years later his father sent him and his older brothers to the Military Engineering Academy in St. Petersburg, his hometown. “My brothers and I were taken to Petersburg to the Engineering Academy and our future was ruined.” (Dostoevsky, His Life and Work 28) On June 8, 1839, his father was murdered while drunk by his peasants. (Dostoevsky, His Life and Work 38) This marked the end of his stay at the Military Engineering Academy. During childhood and adolescence both Fyodor and his older brother Mikhail wanted to become great Russian authors. They were inspired by Pushkin, a man whose death they never got to mourn because he died around the same time as their mother. Fyodor joined the Russian army and graduated as a military engineer and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually resigning 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 in 1849.