- Poor
- Folk
- Fyodor
- Mikhailovich
- Dostoyevsky
- -
- Poor
- Folk
- (Russian:
- ,
- Bednye
- lyudi),
- sometimes
- translated
- as
- Poor
- People,
- is
- the
- first
- novel
- by
- Fyodor
- Dostoevsky,
- written
- over
- the
- span
- of
- nine
- months
- between
- 1844
- and
- 1845.
- Dostoevsky
- was
- in
- financial
- difficulty
- because
- of
- his
- extravagant
- lifestyle
- and
- his
- developing
- gambling
- addiction;
- although
- he
- had
- produced
- some
- translations
- of
- foreign
- novels,
- they
- had
- little
- success,
- and
- he
- decided
- to
- write
- a
- novel
- of
- his
- own
- to
- try
- to
- raise
- funds.Inspired
- by
- the
- works
- of
- Gogol,
- Pushkin
- and
- Karamzin,
- as
- well
- as
- English
- and
- French
- authors,
- Poor
- Folk
- is
- written
- in
- the
- form
- of
- letters
- between
- the
- two
- main
- characters,
- Makar
- Devushkin
- and
- Varvara
- Dobroselova,
- who
- are
- poor
- third
- cousins
- twice removed.
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