The Brothers Karamazov (,
Brat'ya Karamazovy, ), also translated as
The Karamazov Brothers, is the final
novel by the
Russian author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing
The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in
The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. The author died less than four months after its publication.