Poor Folk is the debut novel by the renowned Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky It was published in 1846 and is considered one of the earliest examples of psychological fiction in Russian literature The novel is presented as a series of letters exchanged between two impoverished characters Makar Devushkin a low-ranking civil servant and Varvara Dobroselova a young orphaned woman Through their correspondence the reader gains insight into their dail...