February 15, 2011: Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We end our Russian Book Club with one of the most significant books written in the history of Russian literature. Dostoevsky's final novel represents the pinnacle of his thought and stands as one of the crowning achievements of Nineteenth Century literature. It is the story of the sons of one man, and how each of them chose radically different paths in life, and how each is unable to reconcile their lives to the ideals that they are asked to live up to by society. It is a story of murder, the miscarriage of justice, the failures of religion, the isolation of the free thinking modern man and the dangers of the mob. It is also a dark prophecy of what Russia would become in the Soviet Union.