Poor Folk

<p><b>Poor Folk sometimes translated as Poor People is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845.</b></p><p>Fyodor Dostoyevsky in full Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky also spelled Dostoevsky (born November 11 [October 30 Old Style] 1821 Moscow Russia&mdash;died February 9 [January 28 Old Style] 1881 St. Petersburg) Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.</p>