dec 22, 1849 - 22 December, 1849. Dostevsky is taken, along with twenty others, to Semyonovsky Square to be executed by a firing squad but due to a last-second reprieve the sentence is commuted to an 8 year term of penal servitude in Siberia (later reduced to 4 years hard labour by Nicholas I).
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dec 22, 1849
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~ 175 years ago