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About the product Roman «The Gambler» has strong autobiographical motives, because Dostoevsky himself was a gambler. The history of the creation of this book is very interesting: lost to the last penny in Wiesbaden, the writer desperately in need of money signed a contract with the publisher, according to which he had to write a novel … in 26 days. These completely implausible terms forced Dostoevsky, for the first time in his life, to use the services of a secretary-stenographer, to whom he dictated the text. So the young Anna Snitkina entered the life of a genius — a woman who was destined to become his wife and muse …
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