For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Brothers Karamazov.
This author discarded a chapter describing a confession of rape to Bishop Tikhon from a novel that includes the inadvertent hiring of a convict to kill a man's handicapped wife, whom he had married on a dare. In that novel by this man, a rebel group fears that the member with access to a printing press will betray them, so another man agrees to sign a note taking responsibility for his murder before killing himself. This author wrote of the suicides of Verkhovensky's men Kirilov and Stavrogin in his novel The Possessed. The servant Grigory tutors an epileptic lackey in his novel about the drunken murder victim Fyodor Pavlovich, his bastard son Smerdyakov, and his legitimate sons Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Brothers Karamazov.
This author discarded a chapter describing a confession of rape to Bishop Tikhon from a novel that includes the inadvertent hiring of a convict to kill a man's handicapped wife, whom he had married on a dare.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky