A Real-Life French Serial Killer Inspired Dostoyevsky to Write Crime and Punishment

Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 7:40 a.m.

As a young man, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day that swept Europe during the Revolutions of the 1840s condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the...