The philosophical focus of The Gospel According to F.M. Dostoyevsky is centred around questions of does God exist and if he does, how come he created such hell on Earth where we live in so much pain and suffering; and if he doesn’t exist, what hope do we have of getting out of this misery and cruelty? Lorenci and Starina primarily raise these questions by presenting stories of children’s suffering. And indeed, a child is such an important leitmotif that a picture of a child is in the forefront of the performance poster (young Raskolnikov). To rephrase the questions at the beginning of the paragraph – if children as the most innocent human beings are suffering so much on Earth, is that proof that God doesn’t exist or that he is utterly cruel?

All his life, Dostoevsky tried to penetrate into the essence of who we really are, whether we admit it or not.