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• Dostoevsky began embracing the ideals of socialism
• downturn in his literary and financial fortunes
• seizures and other health problems
• They were sentenced to be executed and were only reprieved at the last possible moment when a letter from the tsar arrived just before the execution, commuting their sentences to exile and hard labor followed by conscription
• March 1874, Dostoevsky decided to leave his work at The Citizen; the stress of the work and the constant surveillance, court cases, and interference by the government proved too much for him and his precarious health to handle

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