It is a bad sign when people stop understanding humour, irony, or joke. – Fyodor Dostoevsky.
This is a rare photographic portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky, made by his close friend Konstatin Shapiro. The photograph was presented to Jacov Faddeevich Sakhar on 16 December, 1880 with the inscription in Dostoevsky’s own hand.
More about the photo: Lame Duck Books.