This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The Russian literary giant was a compulsive gambler who repeatedly borrowed money only to bet and lose ...

When Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote White Nights in 1848, he captured the ephemeral glow of St Petersburg summers - a season where night is barely distinguishable from day, and emotions, like shadows ...