Facing the End- Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Tale

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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    In the video today, we're looking at one of the defining moments of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life where he was subjected to a rather dire affair.
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Комментарии • 59

  • @HighlightHistory
    @HighlightHistory  4 года назад +2

    Please do go check out Squarespace at squarespace.com/brainfood and get 10% off as well as help support Highlight History which I don't mind telling you is presently a major money sink at the moment so having a sponsor helps tremendously. ;-)

    • @drewdurant3835
      @drewdurant3835 4 года назад

      Highlight History will do!

    • @neathizar9743
      @neathizar9743 4 года назад

      An idea for your Biographics channel, Joe Medicine Crow, WW2 soldier and Crow Indian chief.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 4 года назад +19

    We need more Dostoyevsky. Genius

    • @mauricedavis8261
      @mauricedavis8261 3 года назад

      I've read almost if not everything written by him, numerous times, just like Franz Kafka, reading is FUNdamental!!!🙏👍📖

  • @bott3849
    @bott3849 4 года назад +27

    There is so much more to this man, a 9 minute video doesn't come close to doing him justice.
    Please read him.

    • @kaybrown4010
      @kaybrown4010 3 года назад

      I agree. Reading Dostoyevsky enriches my life.

    • @mauricedavis8261
      @mauricedavis8261 3 года назад

      I wholeheartedly agree, read the works, they are awesome...2021 not much has changed has it, sadly!!!🙏📖👀👍

    • @GregoryShtevensh
      @GregoryShtevensh Год назад

      This video is all anyone needs to know surely

  • @CitizenSnips69
    @CitizenSnips69 4 года назад +13

    Nice chair Simon, does it have a name yet? Like Indy Nidel’s “Chair of wisdom.”
    Make a vote so we can name it

  • @snorridavisson7022
    @snorridavisson7022 3 года назад +4

    I just discovered this channel. I am now convinced that Simon has at least two clones.

  • @jaye2491
    @jaye2491 Год назад

    My favourite author of all time.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 4 года назад +5

    Seeing you sitting in that chair presenting different subjects somehow reminds of Alistair Cook on Masterpiece Theater.

  • @garymelnyk7910
    @garymelnyk7910 10 месяцев назад

    This pleasant well spoken and obviously well brought up presenter speaks as if he’s above the moral quandaries and dilemmas that Dostoyevsky tries to deal with. As if he would have done better entrammelled in the same situations described in the stories.

  • @GuadalupePicasso
    @GuadalupePicasso 3 года назад +1

    My favorite book of all time. I’m currently close to the 700 page mark of what’s either my 3rd or 4th time reading the Karamazov Brothers.

  • @iveyao120
    @iveyao120 3 года назад +2

    Simon if you do a biographics on Dostoevsky, I’d be so glad.

  • @casfacto
    @casfacto 3 года назад +1

    Wow, another new to me Simon channel. Look how casually he sits!

  • @danicashuck7834
    @danicashuck7834 4 года назад +3

    Hi, Simon! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 7 месяцев назад

    Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 8:58

  • @bas463
    @bas463 3 года назад +1

    Mate! Love your videos on all channels, big fan! Real nice you created Sideprojects as well. Can't help to think though, what happened to the chair? Would be a good set piece for Biographics!

  • @lisaschuster9187
    @lisaschuster9187 4 года назад

    Thank you, Simon. I’ve been watching science screeds on the superiority of the human mind and this was a delightful relief.

  • @1003JustinLaw
    @1003JustinLaw 2 года назад

    That planned execution pardon is really effective, I should make more use of it... in my fantasy writing that is.

  • @estevanruiz8735
    @estevanruiz8735 3 года назад +1

    We need a video on Dostoyevsky on Biographics!

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 года назад

    The greatest humanitarian whom ever graced this planet!!!

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 года назад +1

    This man changed the way i view humanity, better than any bible could...can you do one on alexzandra Solzhenitsyn???😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁....Simon?

  • @burningspirit7874
    @burningspirit7874 4 года назад

    Cool video, thanks.

  • @ollywurk
    @ollywurk 4 года назад +1

    Simon, have you ever thought of putting little bytesize factual, historical videos together for children. I reckon you'd be great at it, and kids are more likely to digest that kind of information when it's fun for them. It's just an idea I had when I was watching some of your uploads, you certainly seem to have an ability to see the irony and ridiculousness of a lot of the people and events that have shaped the world we now live in. Anyway, happy new year to you all. I look forward to lots more of your output in 2020. My god that sounds so futuristic don't you think?

  • @roboticzamat
    @roboticzamat 2 года назад

    omfg.... HE'S SITTING HERE!!!!!

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 года назад

    I have not looked to see if you already did one on him, but if not, Simon Whistler gets the request!!

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 3 года назад

    "A Gentle Creature" is my personal favorite. Wonder if it's about his father.

  • @lordhegamonster6931
    @lordhegamonster6931 2 года назад

    We’re these Siberian labor camps similar to the Gulags? Just curious..

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 года назад

    how dare a mortal man have such influence over humanity.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 года назад

    7:45 - Mid roll ads

  • @hannamakela6989
    @hannamakela6989 4 года назад +1

    Wasn't the father a physician and the family more middle than working class?

  • @usapatriot4163
    @usapatriot4163 4 года назад +2

    Drowned in vodka I don't know could be worse ways to go.

  • @kikicogger2284
    @kikicogger2284 4 года назад +1

    Is no one going to comment that it was rumoured Dostoyevsky's father was killed by being drowned in Vodka?!

  • @Theringodair
    @Theringodair 3 года назад

    Literary bearded men.

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 года назад +1

    ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN!!#... SIMON!!!

  • @elmiravdicofficial4038
    @elmiravdicofficial4038 4 года назад +1

    Show due respect and pronounce his name right

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 года назад

    .... Dostoyevsky....v.s......technology..."the degree to which a civilization can be judged can be seen by entering its prisons........something like that...sticks to my mouth like peanut butter on the brain...vague, but gratefully there

  • @tsartomato
    @tsartomato 4 года назад

    shedrijin ahahahahhahah

  • @MonteCristoAUS
    @MonteCristoAUS 4 года назад +1

    Congratulations your Russian pronunciations

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato 4 года назад

      ...add 2-3 non-existing syllables because he never bother to read what is written.

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 года назад

    Nietzche not fyodor.

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 года назад

    anyone who teaches this should go to jail.

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 3 года назад

    Well....he suffered from the "human condition", himself......noones perfect....stoopid 7 deadly sins.....

  • @Theringodair
    @Theringodair 3 года назад

    His father was drowned in vodka. A very Russian death.

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 года назад

    nietsche>>>>>>>>>>>>fyodor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Fractal_blip
    @Fractal_blip 3 года назад

    Callum is a better writer than this script writer

  • @anewspinonthings
    @anewspinonthings 4 года назад +9

    Is “facing the end” going to be a reoccurring series