{"id":1787,"date":"2021-11-11T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:44:31","slug":"200th-anniversary-of-fyodor-dostoevskys-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/11\/11\/200th-anniversary-of-fyodor-dostoevskys-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s birth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/crime-and-punishment.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1790\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dostoyevsky) [11 November 1821-9 February 1881], renowned Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist, his literary works explore human psychology\u00a0in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of\u00a019<sup>th<\/sup> century Russia. His most notable works were: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, with his 1864 novella \u2018Notes from Underground\u2019 considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"328\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/notes-from-underground.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/notes-from-underground.jpg 328w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/notes-from-underground-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 85vw, 328px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To celebrate this 200<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Dostoevsky\u2019s birth, in his field in Castagnaro, near Verona, Italy, land artist Dario Gambarin has created a giant image of Dostoevsky. The title of the giant portrait is \u2018Beauty will save us\u2019 \u2013 a quote from Prince Myshkin on Dostoevsky\u2019s novel \u2018The Idiot\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/land-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dostoyevsky) [11 November 1821-9 February 1881], renowned Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist, his literary works explore human psychology\u00a0in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of\u00a019th century Russia. His most notable works were: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, with his 1864 novella \u2018Notes from Underground\u2019 considered to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/11\/11\/200th-anniversary-of-fyodor-dostoevskys-birth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s birth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}