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Repeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s

From 1862–63 onward, and fiercely in 1863, 1865, and 1867–71, Dostoyevsky lost money at roulette in Wiesbaden, Baden-Baden, and related tables, pawning Anna’s things as later told. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Fiscal-Policy Sustainability.

Repeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s
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From 1862–63 onward, and fiercely in 1863, 1865, and 1867–71, Dostoyevsky lost money at roulette in Wiesbaden, Baden-Baden, and related tables, pawning Anna’s things as later told.

Context

Fiscal path: household extraction by tables. Shared with Anna as the person who retrieved pawn. Mixed: he wrote the losses into art. Art does not rebate the debts. Stellovsky is another predator, another year.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Losses are not The Gambler as literature. Mixed effects of Repeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s are separate paths.

Why it matters

Distinct from the dictated novella.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named player who lost household money at Wiesbaden and other tables. Casinos took the stake. Direct on the losses as a pattern.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactRepeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s
    2. weakensDriverFiscal-Policy Sustainability

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1863 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum — St PetersburgDostoevsky Museum, Kuznechny Lane · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Fyodor DostoyevskyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently treats the gambling. Kuznechny museum at https://eng.md.spb.ru/ (opens in a new tab) presents the biographical cluster. Goslitmuz is official neighbourhood.

Established as received: repeated 1860s spa-roulette losses. Not established: a unique ledger of marks. Year-level 1863 for the pattern’s public start. Wiesbaden-Baden pattern from 1863, pawned objects, not the Stellovsky novella delivery. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://eng.md.spb.ru/ (opens in a new tab).

Shared responsibility is part of Repeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1863-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

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  1. ActorFyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. contributed toFactRepeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s
  3. weakensDriverFiscal-Policy Sustainability

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Factrail. (2026). Repeated roulette losses at German spas in the 1860s. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-gambling-losses

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-gambling-losses

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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