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Which French novelist did Fyodor Dostoyevsky first translate into Russian?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, shown in 1876, was introduced to a new generation of readers in 2024–25 when “White Nights” surged in popularity thanks to TikTok and Instagram users.
The first work Fyodor Dostoyevsky published was a translation of the novel Eugénie Grandet by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. Dostoyevsky’s translation was noted for being a rather free and emotionally intensified version of the original text.1