Followed then the publication of A Novel in Nine Letters, several short stories, including A Weak Heart, Polzunkov, The Landlady and White Nights, The Stranger-Woman, Christmas and Wedding, and A Jealous Husband, until 1849, when Fyodor was arrested and sent to Siberia for an indefinite term, including four years of hard labour.

After 1853, Dostoevsky is suffering of periodic epileptic seizures. He marries the widowed Marya Dmitrievna Isaeva in 1857.

After the couple is granted permission to take up residence in European Russia in 1859, Uncle's Dream, The Little Hero (composed in prison) and The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants are published.

These works are soon followed by the first part of House of the Dead.

In 1861 Mikhail (Dostoevsky's brother) and Fyordor edit the magazine Time, in which The Insulted and the Injured, and A Silly Story are published.

These are followed one year after by the second part of House of the Dead and A Nasty Tale, both published in Time. Dostoevsky then makes his first trip abroad, visiting several western European countries, including England, France and Switzerland, and begins a liaison with Apollinaria Suslova.

1863 sees the publication in Time of Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, before the magazine is banned but none the less replaced by Epoch in 1864, which publishes Notes from Underground. Marya Dmitrievna, Fyodor's wife, and his brother Mikhail die the same year.

In 1865, Epoch ceases publication, ending Dostoevsky's five-year journalistic career. An Unusual Happening is published and Polina Suslova declines Fyodor's marriage proposal.

Before Dostoevsky marries to Anna Grigorievna Snitkina in 1867, Crime and Punishment and The Gambler are published. The couple leave for western Europe until 1871, living in Geneva for a time, then Florence, Vienna, Prague and finally Dresden.

Follows the publications of The Idiot (1868), The Eternal Husband (1870), before the Dostoevskys move back to Petersburg where The Devils is published serially.

The following year, The Diary of a Writer becomes a regular feature of The Citizen, a conservative weekly periodical, and Bubok comes out before Dostoevsky is arrested and imprisoned once again, but this time for violation of censorship regulations.

None the less, 1875 sees the publication of A Raw Youth.

In 1876, Dostoevsky becomes sole editor of a new monthly periodical entitled The Diary of a Writer, in which A Gentle Creature appears, soon followed by The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.

One of Dostoevsky's absolute masterpieces, The Brothers Karamazov, is published three years later, before Fyodor delivers his famous speech on Pushkin at the Pushkin festivities in Moscow, in 1880, drawing enormous crowds and stormy emotional responses.

On January 28 ,1881 Dostoevsky dies from a lung hemorrage in St. Petersburg at the age of fifty-nine. He is buried at the cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Monastery.