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Fyodor Dostoevsky & Victor Hugo

Did Fyodor Dostoevsky and Victor Hugo live at the same time?

Yes. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Victor Hugo lived at the same time for 60 years, from 1821 to 1881.[1][2][3][4]

Fyodor Dostoevsky · Victor Hugo · Born in 1821 · Born in 1802

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821–1881
Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
18021885
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Victor Hugo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literature
Born in Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor
Died in Saint Petersburg
Victor Hugo
Literature
Born in Besançon
Died in Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

1825 First public railway opens in England
1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire
1838 First photograph of a person taken
1848 Revolutions of 1848 sweep Europe
1853 Crimean War begins
1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1861 American Civil War begins
1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States
1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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Sources

  1. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Q991) — Wikidata
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Victor Hugo (Q535) — Wikidata