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Russian writer Fyodor
Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov) died on this day
in 1881. Dostoyevsky was sent to Siberia
in 1849 and was lined up with other prisoners before a firing squad. It was a mock execution; the guns fired
blanks. Dostoyevsky’s sentence was
commuted to four years of exile. He
later described his imprisonment as “being shut up in a coffin.” He said the near-death experience made him
into a writer; it inspired him to write The
House of the Dead.
Today's Fun Fact: Near the turn of the 19th century an organization was founded in the U. S. called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive. Among other things, it tried to get a law established that would prohibit burial until "strong smell and putrefaction" made it obvious that the party was really dead.
Today's Fun Fact: Near the turn of the 19th century an organization was founded in the U. S. called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive. Among other things, it tried to get a law established that would prohibit burial until "strong smell and putrefaction" made it obvious that the party was really dead.
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