On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, the Carmel Institute opened its year-long series of book talks in honor of the bicentennial of Fyodor Dostoevsky's birth in 1821. Our first speaker was Dr. Thomas Marullo, professor of Russian at the University of Notre Dame, who presented the second of a three-part biography of the young Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism (2020). Beyond numerous articles, papers, and reviews, Professor Marullo is the author of Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem (1885-1920)(1993); Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore (1920-1933 (1995); If You see the Buddha: Studies in the Fiction of Ivan Bunin (1998); Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution (1998); Ivan Bunin: Twilight of Emigre Russia (1934-1953) (2002); The Liberation of Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Writers (2003); About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony (2007); Petersburg: The Physiology of a City (2009); Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky’s “Netochka Nezvanova” and Poetics of Codependency (2015); Fyodor Dostoevsky: In the Beginning (1821-1845): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism (2016); and Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism(2020).