Fyodor

Brothers Karamazov author

Fyodor is a Russian given name, the equivalent of Theodore.

It appears most often in English contexts through Russian literature—Fyodor Dostoevsky being the most famous bearer: I'm reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

The name derives from Greek roots meaning "gift of God."

literary

Dostoevsky

19th-century Russian author

Crime and Punishment · realism · nihilism · suffering · redemption · guilt · novelist · Russian literature · 19th century · epilepsy

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patronymic

Name from father's name

Sergei · Vladimir · Dmitry · Boris · Andrei · Yuri · Igor · Alexei · Konstantin · Viktor

Russian

Dostoevsky

19th-century Russian author

Tolstoy · tsar · Siberia · Kremlin · samovar · steppes · rubles · Tchaikovsky · Bolshoi · cosmonaut

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Karamazov family dynamics

FyodorAlexei

Russian masculine given name

Ivan

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Family

Dorothy, Theodore, Dorothea

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