The Karamazov Brothers was the last book that Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote. Writing The Brothers Karamazov, published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880, Dostoevsky spent about two years on this work. Less than four months they have separated Dostoevsky's death from publication. It is praised as among the best works of global literature.

The Brothers Karamazov, a fervent philosophical book about issues of God, free choice, and morality set in 19th-century Russia, With a narrative centered on patricide, it has also been characterized as a theological drama addressing issues of faith, doubt, and reason in the framework of a modernizing Russia. Much of the book Dostoevsky wrote in Staraya Russa, which motivated the primary location,

Though Dostoevsky started his initial notes for The Brothers Karamazov in April 1878, the book used ideas and themes from an earlier, unfinished project he had started in 1869 called The Life of a Great Sinner. Considered to be the original draft of the first chapter of The Brothers Karamazov, Drama in Tobolsk is another unfinished effort. Based on a real-life soldier from Omsk, it chronicles a fictitious murder in Staraya Russa carried out by a praporshik called Dmitry Ilynskov, who is believed to have killed his father. Dated 13 September 1874 It then notes that the father's corpse was unexpectedly found under a home in a hole.