Honoré de Balzac | Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1838

Honore De Balzac - drawing by Mary Evans

"Balzac is great!" 

Fyodor Dostoevsky* 

in a letter to his brother Mikhail on 9 August 1838

* His literary idol was Honoré de Balzac and in 1843 even translated 

one of Balzac's greatest works, Eugenie Grandet, into Russian.

Also:

Treatise on Elegant Living | Honore de Balzac, 1830