in the mirror field of the disc - a relief image of the State Emblem of the Russian Federation, above it along the edge - an inscription in a semicircle: "RUSSIAN FEDERATION", framed on both sides by double rhombuses, below the emblem: on the left - designations of precious metal and alloy samples, on the right - the content of chemically pure metal and the mint trademark, below in the center in three lines - the inscription: "BANK OF RUSSIA", coin denomination: "2 RUBLES", year of issue: "2021".

on the mirror field of the disk - relief images of the portrait of F.M. Dostoevsky, candles and books against the background of a view of St. Petersburg and handwritten text; below - a facsimile of the writer's signature and the years of his life in two lines: "1821" and "1881".

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) - Russian writer, philosopher and publicist. Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences since 1877. The classic of world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote his first novel, Poor People, in 1845. The work was enthusiastically received by the legislators of the literary fashion of those years - Nikolai Nekrasov and Vissarion Belinsky. Nekrasov called the aspiring writer "new Gogol" and published the novel in his anthology Petersburg Collection.

Artists: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), A.V. Baklanov, People's Artist of Russia (reverse). Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse, reverse), A.V. Baklanov, People's Artist of Russia (reverse).