On November 11, a postal block dedicated to the 200th Birth Anniversary of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, writer, went into postal circulation

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is one of the most significant and world-famous Russian writers, a classic of Russian literature.
Dostoevsky wrote his first novel Poor Folk in 1845, and in 1846, he wrote The Double novella followed by The Landlady novella in 1847. In later years, novellas White Nights and Netochka Nezvanova were published.

In 1864, Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground. In 1865, the writer began to work on the Crime and Punishment (1866) novel, which mirrored the complete complex path of his inner quest. In 1868-1871, the writer worked on novels The Idiot and Demons. In 1875, novel The Adolescent was published, and in 1879-1880, The Brothers Karamazov came out.

From 1873, the writer became the Editor-in-Chief of the The Citizen magazine; in the pages of this magazine, he began to publish A Writer's Diary, which at that time was a teacher of life for thousands of Russian people.

The postal block provides images of a book, a writer’s facsimile, and paintings by I. Glazunov: F.M. Dostoevsky (1992) and First Date. Illustration for Dostoevsky's story “White Nights” (2012) from the collection of the Gallery of Ilya Glazunov.

In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Veliky Novgorod and Omsk.

Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Block size: 77×116 mm; stamp size in the block: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 30 thousand blocks.

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