The Insulted And Injured Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky I have mentioned already that he was a widower. He had married in his early youth, and married for money. From his parents in Moscow, who were completely ruined, he received hardly anything. Vassilyevskoe was mortgaged over and over again. It was encumbered with enormous debts. At twenty-two the prince, who was forced at that time to take servic... more »e in a government department in Moscow, had not a farthing.« less