 Fyodor Dostoevsky, born on , was the second child of Dr. Mikhail Dostoevsky and Maria Dostoevskaya (born Nechayeva).He was raised in the family home in the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, which was in a lower class district on the edges of Moscow.Dostoevsky encountered the patients, who were at the lower end of the Russian social scale, when playing in the hospital gardens.