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Not sure if he was formally writing them or just developing ideas at the time, but it is well known that Dostoevsky was nearly executed as a young man for the crime of running in literary circles that criticized the Tsar. He was spared the firing squad but was in a prison camp for several years.
Many of his later famous works including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov seem at least tangentially inspired by this experience.