Bayan da aka saki shi a ranar 14 ga Fabrairun 1854, Dostoevsky ya tambayi Mikhail don taimaka masa da kudi da kuma aika masa littattafai na Vico, Guizot, Ranke, Hegel da Kant. Gidan Matattu, bisa ga kwarewarsa a kurkuku, an buga shi a 1861 a cikin mujallar Vremya ("Lokaci") <unk> shi ne littafi na farko da aka wallafa game da fursunonin Rasha. Kafin ya koma tsakiyar Maris zuwa Semipalatinsk, inda aka tilasta masa ya yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Siberian na Battalion na Bakwai, Dostoevsky metographer Pyotr Semyonov da ethnographer Shokan Walikhan. A watan Nuwamba na 1854, ya sadu da Baron Alexander Egorovich Wrangel, mai sha'awar littattafansa, wanda ya halarci kisa.
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