High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Pryestupleniye i nakazaniye) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky`s full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature period" of writing.