Writer's diary (1873)

Dostoevsky’s journalism is even more interesting than his prose. Everything that the writer could not express on the pages of his famous novels was reflected in his “Writer Diary”. These dialogue essays and articles, in which, along with the judgments of the Dostoevsky artist, the sloid of the Dostoevsky-journalist is heard, can be called the "encyclopedia of Russian life."

The deepest analysis of the public life of that time and its moral climate, thoughts On the national character and the people, about the importance of art and Christianity.