F. M. Dostoevsky responded sensitively to the most important events of his time, and in the pages of A Writer’s Diary he addressed them, raising the widest range of issues: from serious philosophical and ethical reflections to a consideration of the international policy of different states. And today A Writer’s Diary has not lost its relevance and continues to captivate the reader—thanks to the author’s rare powers of observation, who knows how to penetrate to the very essence of what is happening.