This article is devoted to detailed philological study of the special artistic language a great Russian classic as Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The great master of traditional Russian classics, as well the author of such inimitable in his image philosophical novels with a share of subtle psychologism as “The Brothers Karamazovs”, “Humiliated and Insulted, “The Idiot”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Poor people” F. Dostoevsky marked the beginning of the emergence of a non-standard literary language as a "language of suffering," embodying all the pain, bitterness and other deep, heavy human feelings that only he could express. Many philologists, literary scholars, translators, critics, and literary figures have tried to decipher and understand the meaning of Dostoevsky's artistic language and how suffering is reflected in that language. As a consequence, this article examines all of the above-mentioned works, in which one can trace Dostoevsky's own "language of suffering". Literary heritage in general, as well characteristic features of "suffering language" of F.M. Dostoevsky become the key object of this article.
Key words: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "language of suffering", novel, "Humiliated and Insulted", “Poor people”, language, suffering, tragedy, russian literature