Player. Dyadyushkin sleep. Badger joke. Dostoevsky F.M.

The player occupies a special place in Dostoevsky’s work, because the plot is largely based on the writer’s personal experience, and he experienced many feelings of the protagonist by his own admission. This is the story of the spiritual death and fall of a person, on the verge of madness enthusiastic about the game. For the sake of his passion, the player puts everything on the map - faith, love and even life...

The story of the creation of the novel itself is noteworthy: the lost to the last penny in Wiesbaden, desperately in need of money, Dostoevsky concluded a contract with the publishing house, according to which was supposed to write a novel... in 26 days. These completely implausible deadlines forced Dostoevsky, for the first time in his life, to use the services of the secretary-star-schedule, to whom he dictated the text. So the young Anna Snitkina entered the life of a genius - a woman who was destined to become his wife and muse...

The collection also included the tragic and mocking “bad joke”.