Due to said work I'm officially announcing that Greyshire is on hiatus (it has been for a while, I just couldn't bring myself to admit that I don't have enough free time to handle it right now.) A big thanks to all the readers who have stuck with the story, I'm hoping to bring it back in the fall.Buuut on a happier note, guess who FINALLY FINISHED LES MIS??? I've got a bunches of doodles, you may see a few of them popping up here
Vive la France!
)Hello long lost internet! Life updates: I ran away to Paris!! (I’d been planning a trip for years now and the timing finally worked out, though the decision to actually go was pretty last minute.) Touring EVERY single thing in the city has been keeping me pretty busy which is why you haven’t seen any posts from me for a while, but rest assured that I’m doodling plenty of Les Mis and humming show-tunes to myself while I ramble around. Drawings on the way!
Final Trivia Answer/ Winner!
Question 7. What year did the earliest recorded drawing of Raskolnikov appear in?
Lets cap of the week with one last piece of fan art! This one’s pretty special; it was made by the biggest Crime and Punishment enthusiast of them all…
and that’s because it was draw by none other than Mr. Dostoevsky himself.
You heard right, turns out Dostoevsky was really into notebook doodles! He drew all over his drafts for different novels, and Crime and Punishment was no exception- according to the site I got them from the two people doodled on the page above are Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov.
(a few more, also speculated to be C&P chars. x)
Sooo… the correct answer is B. Somewhere from 1865 to early 1866, the period when Dostoevsky was writing out the first few drafts of C&P.
Which brings us to our trivia winner! Many congratulations to… (drum roll please)…
@aleskakolja!!
You are the only contestant to answer every single question, write a poem, AND get a perfect score of 90 pts!
Thank you all lots for playing! You all know your stuff; it was a really close race there at the end, and a couple of you were also very close to a perfect score, so hats off to you
Fun fact- The other dates are all C&P/ Dostoevsky relevant as well, I was going to use them as a tie-breaker if I had to:
A. April 1849 to early 1854 (Dostoevsky’s arrest/ exile to Siberia)
C. February 1867 (His marriage to Anna Snitkina)
D. May 1909 (The first C&P movie is released)
E. January 2009 (The first Raskolnikov Week 
Yesterday's Trivia Answer (#6)
A. Writing a SECOND novel
B. Developing a gambling addiction
C. Falling in love with his stenographer, Maria Isaeva
D. Avoiding arrest for membership in a group of suspected revolutionaries
E. All of the above
Out of order explanation:
Avoiding arrest for membership in a group of suspected revolutionaries: This is a thing that happened, but it was over a decade before he wrote C&P. Dostoevsky was not only suspected of revolutionary activity, he was arrested for it and actually lined up in front of a firing squad (a mock execution, but he very much thought it was going to be real) before serving four years hard labor in Siberia.
Developing a gambling addiction: Dostoevsky did have a problem with gambling, but that developed earlier in his life. Both because of gambling and helping to support his brother’s family, Dostoevsky’s desperation for funds led him to…
Write a SECOND novel: (correct answer!) He entered a contract to write a new novel, on the condition that if it wasn’t finished by November 1866 he would lose the rights to compensation for all his future works (I believe for the next nine years.) Dostoevsky, in a very author-like move, put off finishing the promised book in favor of writing Crime and Punishment- then burning the first draft, then writing it again (by his own account, it’s possible he didn’t actually burn it.) When he finally did write the other book (The Gambler), it was at the same time he was working on Crime and Punishment.
Falling in love with his stenographer, Maria Isaeva: He did enlist the help of a stenographer (who he eventually married) during this time to help with the double book attempt, but her name was Anna Snitkina, not Maria Isaeva (who was his first wife.)
tl;dr: All the options were more or less true but happened at a different time/ with a different person, but he did write two books at once!
Yesterday's Trivia Answer (#5)
A. Napoleon
B. Lycurgus
C. Caesar
D. Newton
E. Kepler
Raskolnikov’s list of extraordinary folks includes conquerors and scientists and even a Spartan law reformer apparently, but he never specifically mentions Caesar.